Cairo (AFP) - Gunmen killed 15 soldiers at a checkpoint in western Egypt on Saturday, security officials said, in one of their biggest assaults since president Mohamed Morsi's ouster last year.
Militants have stepped up attacks on the security forces since Morsi was toppled as the army struggles to quell an Islamist insurgency that has killed scores of soldiers and policemen, mainly in the Sinai Peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.