Islamists attack Egyptian troops near Libyan border, kill 21

Published July 20, 2014

FOX NEWS
CAIRO – Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guard post Saturday in Egypt’s western desert in a brazen assault that killed 21 troops deployed in the province along the border with neighboring Libya.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi called it a “terrorist attack” on soldiers defending the country’s borders that will “not go unanswered.