Egypt Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/egypt/ The Concord of African Journalism Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:06:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 https://dailyconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-DailyConcordIcon-32x32.png Egypt Archives - Daily Concord https://dailyconcord.com/tag/egypt/ 32 32 Egypt executes ‘top jihadist’ Hisham Ashmawi https://dailyconcord.com/egypt-executes-top-jihadist-hisham-ashmawi/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 23:05:57 +0000 https://dailyconcord.com/?p=14705 Egypt has executed Hisham Ashmawi, a man once considered the country’s most wanted jihadist. The

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Egypt has executed Hisham Ashmawi, a man once considered the country’s most wanted jihadist. The country’s state-owned Nile News TV channel and Egypt’s military spokesman said he was killed on Wednesday morning.

Hisham Ashmawi, once an army officer, was found guilty of involvement in several high-profile attacks, including one in western Egypt in 2014 that killed more than 20 security personnel

He was also convicted of being behind a 2013 attempt to assassinate then-Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim.

Ashmawi was captured in eastern Libya by forces loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Haftar.

The renegade commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), which has close relations with Egypt’s government, handed Ashmawi over for trial last May.

Ashmawi, also known as Abu Umar al-Muhajir, once served in the Egyptian army’s special operations force but was dismissed over his religious views.

The army said he later became a senior figure in the Sinai-based jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, but that he left before it pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in 2014.

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Ashmawi subsequently moved with a number of followers to Egypt’s Western Desert, and then crossed the border into eastern Libya, it added.

In 2015, Ashmawi allegedly established an al-Qaeda-aligned group called al-Mourabitoun, which was blamed for an attack two years later that killed 28 Christian pilgrims travelling to a monastery.

That’s all from BBC Africa Live for now. Keep up-to-date with what’s happening across the continent by listening to the Africa Today podcast or checking the BBC News website. We leave you with an automated service until Thursday.

Source – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

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