Serangan Tentera Mesir Sinai: tentera bergerak terhadap Sinai sebagai Islam protes Kaherah berterusan. Penyokong Presiden Mesir Mohammed Morsi yang digulingkan dan partinya Ikhwan Muslimin Islam mereka berterusan ‘Sit-in’ dan perhimpunan besar-besaran di Kaherah ke hujung minggu, sehari selepas sekurang-kurangnya 65 orang terbunuh dalam pertempuran dengan penyokong pro-tentera dan pasukan keselamatan negara.
Beribu-ribu penyokong Morsi masih berkumpul di Kaherah, di mana ‘Sit-in’ utama mereka telah terletak selama hampir 3 minggu, selepas menewaskan oleh tentera Morsi pada 3 Julai. Jeneral Mesir Sementara itu, melancarkan operasi besar-besaran terhadap militan Islam di utara Sinai bertujuan untuk menghapuskan aktiviti pengganas di semenanjung.
Tentera dari kedua-dua tentera lapangan bersama-sama dengan tentera laut Mesir dan tentera udara, dilaporkan telah mula menyekat jalan raya, jambatan, dan terowong yang membawa dari utara Sinai ke kawasan-kawasan Mesir yang lain.
Egypt Army Sinai Offensive: Military moves against Sinai Islamists as Cairo protests continue. Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his party the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood continued their sit-ins and massive rallies in Cairo into the weekend, a day after at least 65 people were killed in clashes with pro-army supporters and security forces countrywide.
Thousands of Morsi supporters were still gathered in Cairo, where their main sit-in has been located for nearly three weeks, following Morsi's ousting by the army on July 3. Egypt's generals, meanwhile, launched a wide-scale operation against Islamist militants in the northern Sinai aimed at eliminating terrorist activity on the peninsula.
Military from two field armies, along with the Egyptian navy and air force, are reported to have begun blocking roads, bridges, and tunnels leading from northern Sinai to other Egyptian regions.
