Sinai tribes hunt Islamic State bomb makers
Sinai tribes join the hunt for IS explosives engineers, potentially depriving the terrorist group of its last technique in its fight against the Egyptian army.
CAIRO — An association of Sinai tribes allied with the Egyptian army is hunting down the explosives experts of the Islamic State (IS) branch in this Egyptian territory, which will potentially weaken the branch even more and deprive it of its last survival technique.
IS has resorted to planting explosives on roads used by Egyptian army troops and policemen fighting them in northern and central Sinai.
The terrorist organization succeeded in killing a sizeable number of army troops using this method.
However, the Union of Sinai Tribes, which consists of most of the tribes in northern and central Sinai, works to deprive IS of this tactic by tracking those making the explosives and also those who plant them.
