ISIS Attacks Egyptian Navy, 'Full Fledged War Across Egypt' (Video)

via AhramOnline by Miriam Rizk

A militant insurgency is turning into a full-fledged war across Egypt, experts said on Thursday, hours after the army announced an assault on a navy ship, the first of its kind.

The army said the “terrorist attack” on its boat in the early hours of Wednesday in the Mediterranean left five navy personnel injured, while eight others remain missing.

The attack, considered a strategic shift in militant attacks, comes less than three weeks after an attack on an army checkpoint in North Sinai left 31 troops dead, the highest single death toll for the military in decades.

The attack is thought to have been carried out by the Egyptian ISIS branch, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, who just days ago declared their allegience to the new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State (ISIS).