Sinai mosque attack 'terrorist, barbaric': Egypt FM 2 Cairo

CAIRO - 28 November 2017: The top Egyptian diplomat added "no one state can undertake fighting terrorism by its own, but it must be a collaborative activity by the international community."

Asked about the reason behind the terrorism presence in Sinai, although it was defeated in Iraq and Syria, Shoukry said "we have warned in many occasions that there is a potential that some foreign fighters that have fled those areas of conflict might infiltrate other parts of the region like Egypt, Libya and Sub-Saharan Africa."

"I think those warnings were quite justified. We are seeing increasing level of foreign fighters that crossing borders and fleeing borders of Syrian and Iraq and winding up in various part of Africa," he added.