CAIRO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian army killed two militants on Sunday in Egypt's North Sinai province, military spokesman said.
Military raids targeted hideouts of extremist elements, killing two militants and destroying two trucks used by the terrorists, military spokesman Tamer al-Refaay said in the statement.
Bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, Egypt's North Sinai province has been the center of anti-government terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the military removal of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
The army removed Morsi in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Since then, most of the terrorist operations were claimed by a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The Egyptian military in cooperation with the police killed hundreds of militants and arrested a similar number of suspects as part of the country's anti-terror war declared in 2013 by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief then, following Morsi's removal.
