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Thursday, July 24, 2014
On July 19 a group of heavily armed terrorists attacked an Egyptian Army post in the desert area of El-Farafrah, roughly 400 miles southwest of Cairo and on the main road to the Bahriya oasis. More than 20 Egyptian soldiers were killed.
The US Embassy said that while there are no known specific threats against US interests in the Western Desert, due to the possibility of further violence, it is advising US citizens to avoid the area, including the White and Black deserts, and the area west of the Siwa oasis to the Libyan border until further notice.
The attack on the army post took place in the early evening of July 19. During the attack, one of the gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade that struck an ammunition cache, causing an explosion that killed the soldiers and wounded four others, a military statement said. The military did not provide any information about the gunmen, except to call them “terrorists.”
The death toll from the attack is said to be the highest for the Egyptian military in a single attack in quite some time, and came as the Egyptian government has expressed alarm over threats from neighboring countries, especially from Libya.
Currently a number of oil and gas firms, including US independents Apache Corp. and TransGlobe Energy, operate in the Western Desert.
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