Security forces in North Sinai launched a crackdown against terrorist hotbeds in cities of Sheikh Zuwaid, Rafah and al-Arish, Youm 7 reported Friday. Military aircraft participated in the crackdown that targeted aborting terrorist attacks against security facilities, military sources said without mentioning the results of the crackdown. The Sinai Peninsula has been home to a series of deadly blasts claiming hundreds of lives since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood rule, July 2013.