Egypt: Sinai operations will last 'until IS removed'

Egypt says its army will continue an offensive in the Sinai Peninsula, after clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants left more than 100 dead. 

The military said the operations will not stop until the area is cleared of all "terrorist concentrations". 

The Egyptian army said 17 soldiers were among those killed after militants launched simultaneous raids on military checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. 

The attack was one of the largest co-ordinated assaults in the area yet by Islamic State's local affiliate, Sinai Province. 

The peninsula has been under a state of emergency and a curfew since October, when dozens of soldiers were killed in a militant attack. 

Security officials report that nine members of the-banned Muslim Brotherhood were also killed in a police raid in Cairo.

BBC