Operation Eagle

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Operation Eagle
Part of Sinai insurgency
Map of the Sinai Peninsula
Date 14 August 2011—September 2012 Location Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Result Egyptian government victory
Belligerents
Egypt Egyptian Armed Forces Central Security Forces Egyptian National Police	Islamists: Ansar Bait al-Maqdis[1] (until late 2014) Bedouin tribesmen[2] Jund al Islam[3] Popular Resistance Movement[4] Takfir wal-Hijra[5] Tawhid al-Jihad[6] Ansar al-Sharia[7] (from 2012) Mujahideen Shura Council[8] (from 2012) Army of Islam[9] Abdullah Azzam Brigades[10] Al-Qaeda in Sinai Peninsula[11] (from late 2011) Al Furqan Brigades[12] Soldiers of Egypt[13] (from 2013)
Commanders and leaders
Sami Anan M. H. Tantawi	Unknown
Units involved
Second Army Third Army	Insurgent Cells

Operation Eagle (Arabic: عملية نسر) was an Egyptian military campaign in the Sinai Peninsula, that was launched in August 2011 to confront the Sinai insurgency. The campaign was aimed against Islamist insurgents, who had been attacking the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai and using the area as a base from which to attack Israel since early 2011. Successive Egyptian operation against insurgents in 2012, named Operation Sinai,^[14][15] was initially referred as the second part of Operation Eagle. It was the first in a number of campaigns to retake the Sinai from insurgents which was achieved.