source: New Arab
actor1: Military Forces of Egypt (2014-)
actor2: Islamic State (Egypt)
location: Bir Al-Abd
notes: On 28 August 2020, Egyptian military forces engaged in armed clashes with Islamic State militants when the Egyptian forces attempted to retake more territory from the Islamic State in the IS-occupied villages in Bir Al-Abd (Bir Al-Abd, North Sinai) with the help of air cover and ground troops. During the fighting, an Islamic State suicide vehicle-borne IED targeted a group of Egyptian military forces in Iqtiyah, destroying a bulldozer and injuring and killing an unknown number of Egyptian soldiers. Egyptian military forces also launched airstrikes targeting the 3 IS-occupied villages of Qatiyah, Iqtiyah, and Al Marih in Bir Al-Abd, with no further reports on resulting fatalities or injuries. Unknown military fatalities from suicide attack coded as 3.