Egypt launches air strikes after deadly mosque attack

By Farid Farid
Updated November 27 2017 - 9:28am, first published 9:22am

Cairo: Egypt raised its security alert to the highest level on Saturday as it emerged that the Islamic State may have been behind a mosque attack in the restive north Sinai in which more than 300 people died, the most lethal single assault in the country's recent history.

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