After the Gulf War has ended, a new separatist movement started gaining strength on the Sinai Peninsula led by a group called the Sinai Liberation Front (SLF). The SLF launched their all out attack earlier this year, and now they have managed to occupy large areas on the Sinai, and declared their independence from Egypt. Unfortunately, the economic and political chaos of the last decade left the Egyptian military in a weakened state, so the government hired a private military company called Executive Incomes (EXI) to aid them with the air campaign against the rebels.
