Egypt levels Sinai homes in new strategy against Islamist militants

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IBSHAR Egypt (Reuters) - At Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip, families are emptying their homes - lugging mattresses and furniture onto waiting vans as soldiers look on from armored cars. In this village of Ibshar and eight more along the frontier, 680 houses - homes to 1,165 families - are being razed to seal off smugglers' tunnels and try to crush a militant insurgency in **rthern Sinai that has intensified since the army overthrew President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood 16 months ago. The operation's resulting **-mans-land - a security buffer 13. ...

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