Operation Red Sea: NAIL Against China, 2025

Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of files upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of files and also the ground whereon they are. --------Exodus 8:21 The year 2025 was a tumultuous time in North Africa, as a succession of radical Islamist parties came to power; first in Algeria and then across Africa. By October the governments of Algeria, Egypt and Libya--along with the historically moderate governments of Tunisia and Morocco--would unite under the banner of the North African Islamic League; N. A. I. L. The origin of the North African Islamic League can be traced back to the "Islamic Resistance Movement Numan Brigade," which was established in 2005. The organization's initial purpose was to instill fear in the Chinese community in North Africa, and this was demonstrated when the group kidnapped 19 Chinese construction workers in Egypt on January 18, 2005. Over the next few years, the group continued its acts of terrorism, attacking the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, the Cairo representative office of the China Development Bank, and the Egyptian subsidiary of Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. in 2009, 2013, and 2016, respectively. In response to the group's activities, China began participating in anti-terrorism military cooperation with North African countries in 2017. By 2019, the North African government believed that its efforts to combat the group's terrorism were effective, as the group's activities had significantly declined and the spread of radicalism was believed to be "well under control." However, in 2020, North Africa was impacted by a series of crises including the global food crisis, the pandemic, the energy crisis, and escalated conflicts in various countries, leading to increased political instability in the region. In 2021, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt experienced a split, with the "Muslim Brot