source: New Arab
actor1: Military Forces of Egypt (2014-)
actor2: Islamic State (Egypt)
location: Rafah
notes: On 3 June 2020, Egyptian military forces and Islamic State militants engaged in armed clashes in the Al Dheeba neighborhood west of Rafah (Rafah, North Sinai), leading to the death of 3 Egyptian soldiers and an unknown number of Islamic State militants, as well as an unknown number of injuries on both sides. The clashes had escalated to a point where Egyptian airmen and naval personnel intervened to support the Egyptian military, and 2 of the deaths were sustained by naval personnel. Unknown IS fatalities coded as 3, for total of 6.