Soldiers of Egypt
Ajnad Misr
Leaders	Humam Muhammed †[1] Ezz al-Din al-Masri[2]
Dates of operation	20 November 2013[3]–present
Active regions	Cairo, Egypt
Ideology	Salafist jihadism[4]
Opponents	Egyptian security forces[5]
Battles and wars	Insurgency in Egypt

Soldiers of Egypt or Ajnad Misr^[6][7] was a Salafist Islamist militant group that has been operating near Cairo, Egypt.^[8] The group was founded by Humam Muhammed in 2013, after he split away from the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis militant group.^[1] The group claims that its attacks are "retribution" for the August 2013 Rabaa Massacre; notably, the group targets only security forces.^[4] It has warned civilians of the presence of bombs that it has placed.^[9]

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters declared the group a terrorist group on 22 May 2014.^[10] It has been a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000 since 28 November 2014.^[11] The United States Department of State designated it a terrorist organization on 18 December 2014.^[12]

On April 5 of 2015, Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, founder of Ajnad Misr was killed during a raid in Cairo. The group confirmed that been succeeded by Ezz al-Din al-Masry.^[13][14]

Attacks

2014

• The group claimed responsibility for an attack^[15] that occurred on 24 January 2014 that ultimately killed four policeman and wounding 100 people,^[16][17] Ansar Bait al-Maqdis indicated that Soldiers of Egypt had executed one of the bombings, despite the fact that Ansar Bait al-Maqdis initially claimed responsibility for all of the bombings.^[18]
• 31 January; An explosive device blast against a vehicle with Central Security Forces (CSF) officers, wounding one.^[19][20] In the same day a double attack against a CSF camp in Giza Governorate left one officer wounded.^[21][22]
• The group claimed responsibility for two bombings that occurred on 7 February 2014, which left six officers of the Egyptian National Police (ENP) wounded.^[7][23]
• The group claimed to have killed one policemen and injured eight people in a 13 February 2015 bombing near a police station in Ain Shams.^[24]
• The group exploded a bomb in 6th of October City on 5 March 2014.^[25][26]
• The group targeted a police car parked near the Israeli embassy in Cairo on 11 March 2014.^[25][27]
• The group placed a bomb in Nasr City on 29 March 2014.^[25][28]
• 2 April: One civilian and one police general was killed and four people were wounded in a coordinate quadruple bombing at Cairo University in Giza.^[29][30]
• 10 April: A militant threw an explosive device under the vehicle of a police captain, detonating and wounding the officer, in 6th of October, Giza.^[5][31][32] In the same day, and explosive device blasts in El-Houssari Square, without leaving victims.^[31]
• 15 April: Two policemen and a civilian wounded by a bomb in Giza.^[5][33]
• 18 April; One police officer was killed and other wounded by the group in Lebanon Square area, Mohandessin.^[34][5][35]
• 23 April: The group killed the Brigadier General Ahmed Zaki of the Central Security Forces in 6th of October, Giza.^[34][36]
• 30 June: A quadruple coordinate bombing in the Ittihadiya Palace in Heliopolis district, Cairo. The blasts kill two officers and wound other 10.^[9][37][38]
• 21 September: An improvised device near an Egyptian National Police (ENP) checkpoint in Boulaq Abu El-Ela neighborhood, Cairo, killing two police and wound 6 six more.^[39][40]
• 14 October: A bomb blasts near a metro station and the High Court of Justice on Ramses Street in Cairo, left 13 civilians wounded.^[41][42]
• 22 October: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing that occurred on 22 October 2014 near Cairo University that injured 11 people.^[43][44]
• 20 November; Militants threw an explosive device that detonated near an ENP checkpoint in Helwan (near Helwan University), Cairo, leaving five officers wounded.^[45][46][47]
• The group injured four policemen in a bombing that occurred on 5 December 2014 near Ain Shams University.^[48]

2015

• The group killed one policeman and injured three civilians in a January 2015 bombing in the Talbia district of Giza.^[49]
• 22 January: An assailant threw an explosive device at the presidential palace in Misr Al Gadida, Cairo, leaving an officer wounded.^[50]
• 23 January; A bomb blasts Alf Maskan neighborhood, Cairo, left four officers and a civilian wounded.^[51][52] Two days later, a double attack in an anniversary of the Egyptian revolution left three officers wounded in Cairo.^[53][54]
• 13 February; an improvised device blasts killed one policeman and injured seven policemen and a civilian in Ain Shams neighborhood, Cairo.^[55]
• 28 March; An improvised device blasts in a metro station near Cairo University, leaving four officers and four civilians wounded.^[24][56]
• 5 April: The group claimed responsibility for a bombing in an ENP Checkpoint in Zamalek that killed one officer and wound three more. Ajnad Misr claimed the attack^[57][58]
• 13 April; Explosive devices blasts against a Transmission tower, in 6th of October city, Giza, leaving serious damage to the electric infrastructure.^[59][60]
• 16 July: An explosive device blasts in front of a building in Roxy Square, Heliopolis, leaving one officer wounded.^[61][62]
• 10 August; An improvised device blasts at a traffic sentry post near a courthouse in Cairo, killing a police captain and wounding three more.^[63][64]