ISIS suicide car bomb plus gunfire kills 10 Egyptian troops

An Egyptian special forces officer, Col. Ahmed el-Mansi, was among the 10 troops killed Friday by Islamist terrorists in a suicide car-bomb, followed by heavy gunfire, on their checkpoint in the northern Sinai-Gaza border town of Rafah.  Another 20 were injured. Egyptian officials reported that 40 attackers were killed in the subsequent battle
 

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