source: New Arab; Twitter; Facebook
actor1: Islamic State (Egypt)
actor2: Military Forces of Egypt (2014-)
location: Raba
notes: On 17 August 2020, Egyptian military forces and the Islamic State engaged in armed clashes in an Islamic State-occupied area south of the village of Raba'a (Bir Al-Abd, North Sinai), with an unknown number of fatalities incurred by both sides. The clashes erupted when dozens of Egyptian military vehicles and special forces attempted to storm Raba'a to retake it from the Islamic State. Unknown number of fatalities coded as 3.