Soldiers of Egypt (Arabic: أجناد مصر, romanized: Ajnad Misr)[6][7] was a Salafist Islamist militant group that operated near Cairo, Egypt.[8] The group was founded by Humam Muhammed in 2013, after he split away from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant group.[1] The group claimed that its attacks were "retribution" for the August 2013 Rabaa Massacre; notably, the group targeted only security forces.[4] It warned civilians of the presence of bombs that it placed.[9]
On April 5 of 2015, Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, founder of Ajnad Misr was killed during a raid in Cairo. The group confirmed that been succeeded by Ezz al-Din al-Masry.[13][14]
Attacks
2014
The group claimed responsibility for an attack[15] that occurred on 24 January 2014 that ultimately killed four policeman and wounding 100 people,[16][17]Ansar Bait al-Maqdis indicated that Soldiers of Egypt had executed one of the bombings, despite the fact that Ansar Bait al-Maqdis initially claimed responsibility for all of the bombings.[18]
31 January; An explosive device blast against a vehicle with Central Security Forces (CSF) officers, wounding one.[19][20] In the same day a double attack against a CSF camp in Giza Governorate left one officer wounded.[21][22]
The group claimed responsibility for two bombings that occurred on 7 February 2014, which left six officers of the Egyptian National Police (ENP) wounded.[7][23]
The group claimed to have killed one policemen and injured eight people in a 13 February 2015 bombing near a police station in Ain Shams.[24]
2 April: One civilian and one police general was killed and four people were wounded in a coordinate quadruple bombing at Cairo University in Giza.[29][30]
10 April: A militant threw an explosive device under the vehicle of a police captain, detonating and wounding the officer, in 6th of October, Giza.[5][31][32] In the same day, and explosive device blasts in El-Houssari Square, without leaving victims.[31]
15 April: Two policemen and a civilian wounded by a bomb in Giza.[5][33]
18 April; One police officer was killed and other wounded by the group in Lebanon Square area, Mohandessin.[34][5][35]
21 September: An improvised device near an Egyptian National Police (ENP) checkpoint in Boulaq Abu El-Ela neighborhood, Cairo, killing two police and wound 6 six more.[39][40]
14 October: A bomb blasts near a metro station and the High Court of Justice on Ramses Street in Cairo, left 13 civilians wounded.[41][42]
22 October: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing that occurred on 22 October 2014 near Cairo University that injured 11 people.[43][44]
20 November; Militants threw an explosive device that detonated near an ENP checkpoint in Helwan (near Helwan University), Cairo, leaving five officers wounded.[45][46][47]
The group injured four policemen in a bombing that occurred on 5 December 2014 near Ain Shams University.[48]
2015
The group killed one policeman and injured three civilians in a January 2015 bombing in the Talbia district of Giza.[49]
22 January: An assailant threw an explosive device at the presidential palace in Misr Al Gadida, Cairo, leaving an officer wounded.[50]
23 January; A bomb blasts Alf Maskan neighborhood, Cairo, left four officers and a civilian wounded.[51][52] Two days later, a double attack in an anniversary of the Egyptian revolution left three officers wounded in Cairo.[53][54]
13 February; an improvised device blasts killed one policeman and injured seven policemen and a civilian in Ain Shams neighborhood, Cairo.[55]
5 April: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing in an ENP Checkpoint in Zamalek that killed one officer and wound three more. Ajnad Misr claimed the attack[57][58]
