2011 Egyptian military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula against the Sinai Insurgency
For other uses, see Operation Eagle (disambiguation).
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Operation Eagle
Part of Sinai insurgency
Map of the Sinai Peninsula
Date
14 August 2011—September 2012
Location
Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Result
Egyptian government victory
Belligerents
Egypt
Egyptian Armed Forces
Central Security Forces
Egyptian National Police
Islamists:
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis[1] (until late 2014)
Bedouin tribesmen[2]
Jund al Islam[3]
Popular Resistance Movement[4]
Takfir wal-Hijra[5]
Tawhid al-Jihad[6]
Ansar al-Sharia[7] (from 2012)
Mujahideen Shura Council[8] (from 2012)
Army of Islam[9]
Abdullah Azzam Brigades[10]
Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula[11] (from late 2011)
Al Furqan Brigades[12]
Soldiers of Egypt[13] (from 2013)
Commanders and leaders
Sami Anan M. H. Tantawi
Unknown
Units involved
Second Army
Third Army
Insurgent Cells
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Sinai insurgency
Timeline
Operation Eagle
Egypt-Israel border (2011)
Sinai (2012)
Egypt-Israel border (2012)
Operation Sinai
Taba bombing (2014)
Sinai (2014)
Sinai (January 2015)
Sinai (July 2015)
Operation Martyr's Right
Arish (2015)
Sinai (2016)
Rafah terror attack
Al-Rawda mosque attack
COS 2018
El Qantara
International incidents
Metrojet Flight 9268
Operation Eagle (Arabic: العملية نسر) was an Egyptian military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, that was launched in August 2011 to confront the Sinai insurgency. The campaign was aimed against Islamist insurgents, who had been attacking the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai and using the area as a base from which to attack Israel since early 2011. Successive Egyptian operation against insurgents in 2012, named Operation Sinai,[14][15] was initially referred as the second part of Operation Eagle. It was the first in a number of campaigns to retake the Sinai from insurgents which was achieved.
^"Perpetrators of second Rafah massacre arrested". Daily News Egypt. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
^"Egypt's Sinai desert: A haven for malcontents". The Economist. 13 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
^"Jund al Islam claims credit for Sinai suicide car bomb attacks". The Long War Journal. 12 September 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2013.
^"(Allied) Popular Resistance Movement". Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. 9 April 2015.
^"Egypt army arrests head of Sinai radical militant group, dozens others". Ahram Online. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
^"Egypt sentences 14 to death for 2011 Sinai attacks". The Times of Israel. 24 September 2012. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
^"Ansar al Sharia Egypt in the Sinai". Long War Journal. 6 July 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.
^Bill Roggio, Mujahideen Shura Council denies involvement in Sinai assault, Long War Journal (Foundation for Defense of Democracies) 06-08-2012 Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^"Jaysh al-Islam". Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy. 22 July 2014. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
^"Deadly attacks in Sinai highlight the region's growing instability". American Enterprise Institute. 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
^"Jihadists attack international peacekeeper base in Egypt's Sinai | FDD's Long War Journal". 15 September 2012.
^"Al Furqan Brigades". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
^"Ajnad Misr". Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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