Operation Eagle

Operation Eagles
Part of Sinai insurgency
Map of the Sinai Peninsula
Date 14 August 2011—September 2012 Location Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
Belligerents
Egypt Egyptian Armed Forces Central Security Forces Egyptian National Police	Islamists: Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (until late 2014) Bedouin tribesmen Jund al Islam Popular Resistance Movement Takfir wal-Hijra Tawhid al-Jihad Ansar al-Sharia (from 2012) Mujahideen Shura Council (from 2012) Army of Islam Abdullah Azzam Brigades Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula (from late 2011) Al Furqan Brigades Soldiers of Egypt (from 2013)
Commanders and leaders
Sami Anan M. H. Tantawi	Unknown

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"A convoy of Egyptian armoured vehicles head along a road on the Sinai Peninsula near the Gaza border on August 13, 2011"—CNN

 Egypt

Islamists:

Operation Eagle (Arabic: عملية 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, was initially referred as the second part of Operation Eagle.

Sinai was an integral part of Egypt since the inception of the Muhammad Ali dynasty in the early 19th century. Israel briefly captured the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt in the 1967 Six-Day War. As part of the 1979 Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, in 1982 Israel withdrew from the peninsula. Among the treaty's other provisions was an agreement that the peninsula would be left effectively demilitarized.

A number of factors have enabled armed Islamist groups to take root and proliferate in the Sinai. Including local population alienation from the state and becoming more dependent on smuggling to Gaza.

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