This group says it downed Russian plane

November 11, 2015 00:35

Governments and intelligence experts increasingly believe what brought down Metrojet Flight 9268 over Egypt was no accident.

ISIS affiliate Al Wilayat Sinai has claimed responsibility for the crash, which killed 224 people.

ISIS in Sinai is very different from ISIS, the terror group that currently occupies large parts of Iraq and Syria. It is a mostly local group of jihadists that feed off long-standing grievances that the population of the Sinai peninsula has with the Egyptian state.

The group has contact with and has pledged allegiance to ISIS's main group, which has its capital in Raqqa, Syria.

But ISIS in Sinai operates largely autonomously, according to various media reports.

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