For months, the nearly 700 American soldiers deployed on the ground in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have weathered a crisis all but indistinguishable from their fellow troops in Iraq.
Living amid blast walls topped with razor wire, riding only in up-armored vehicles, the troops face a constant threat of attacks from extremist groups .
On Thursday, four of those troops were injured when their convoy rolled out of the “North Camp” just a few miles east of the Egypt-Israeli border and hit two improvised explosive devices. Details