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Egypt\u2019s strategy in Sinai is being explored in the foreign press over the weekend<\/strong>, with the usual alarmist tinge coloring the conversation. First off is Human Rights Watch<\/a>, which ran a report which alleges that security forces may have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared men in Sinai and then staged a counter-terrorism raids to cover it up. Security tactics were also questioned by Voice of America<\/a>, which blames them for the Sinai insurgency gaining strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt\u2019s strategy in Sinai is being explored in the foreign press over the weekend, with the usual alarmist tinge coloring the conversation. First off is Human Rights Watch, which ran a report which alleges that security forces may have arbitrarily detained and forcibly disappeared men in Sinai and then staged a counter-terrorism raids to cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[2386,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-650208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-egypt-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"8d229036-625c-4461-bec2-a464975fec63","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"e4c48b32-476b-458a-b9f3-e14aa0111f5d","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[650182],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nEgypt\u2019s strategy in Sinai criticized in foreign media - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/03\/19\/egypts-strategy-in-sinai-criticized-in-foreign-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s strategy in Sinai criticized in foreign media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Egypt\u2019s strategy in Sinai is being explored in the foreign press over the weekend, with the usual alarmist tinge coloring the conversation. 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