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" According to the Associated Press, Egypt&amp;#039;s military claims it has killed Abu Doaa al-Ansari, the leader of Islamic State&amp;#039;s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, along with &amp;quot;several key aides&amp;quot; and 45 other members of ISIS.  Though few details are currently available, Egyptian military&amp;#039;s chief spokesman, Brig Gen Mohammed Samir, said in a statement on his Facebook page that the leader of the extremist group was killed south of el-Arish in an operation by counterterrorism forces utilizing warplanes and &amp;quot;accurate intelligence.&amp;quot; Officials said that Ansari and the aides were killed in an airstrike; this information &amp;quot;appeared to [be] confirmed&amp;quot; by aerial images of the strike, according to the AP. The airstrike was part of an ongoing campaign that started over a week ago, officials said.  If you haven&amp;#039;t heard the name before, the AP notes that it wasn&amp;#039;t widely known; it&amp;#039;s likely a fake name that &amp;quot;allude[s] to the country or city a militant hails from or the place he adopted as home,&amp;quot; also known as a &amp;quot;nom de guerre.&amp;quot; Egyptian expert on the Sinai insurgency Monhannad Sabry told the AP that it could be problematic that the military didn&amp;#039;t give al-Ansari&amp;#039;s real name. &amp;quot;Even if someone with this nom de guerre exists, this will be one more time Egypt&amp;#039;s military announces that it has killed the leader, or a leader of a group that never publicly named its leader,&amp;quot; Sabry said.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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