When a car bomb detonated outside a security building in Cairo on Aug. 20 it marked a new turn in the long-running series of violent attacks on the Egyptian capital. The explosion wounded approximately 27 people, 6 of whom are policemen, but there appear to have been no deaths.
The attack has been claimed by a group calling itself the Sinai Province (SP), which is affiliated to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). SP has stated that the bomb was in response to the execution of six of its members accused of a similar attack in Cairo last year. Though there were no deaths this time, the quickening rate of such attacks shows that President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi’s measures against terrorism have been grossly ineffective.
