(CBS News) Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi confirmed in an interview on "60 Minutes" to be aired on Sunday that his military was working with Israel against terrorists in North Sinai. Asked if cooperation with Israel was the closest ever between two enemies that once were at war, he responds, "That is correct....We have a wide range of cooperation with the Israelis." The Egyptians are battling an estimated 1,000 ISIS-affiliated terrorists on its Sinai peninsula that they have allowed the Israelis to attack by air.
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