The Pentagon is considering increasing security for troops in Northeast Sinai, Egypt, after four U.S. troops were injured in a bomb blast last week.
Peter Cook, Pentagon press secretary, said the defense secretary is examining ways to keep troops safer in the region, but that improvements to force protection have been under consideration for weeks and are not in direct response to the weekend’s attack.
“We’re considering several steps to bolster force protection there,” Cook told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s going to be something that you’ll see some movement on in the short term.”
Cook could not update the condition of the four U.S. service members, who were evacuated by air to a medical facility with non-life threatening injuries on Thursday, a Pentagon statement said.
Two Multinational Force and Observer peacekeepers were also injured in the two blasts in Northeast Sinai.
Cook said the attack will not change in the U.S. mission in the region to support the Treaty of Peace between Israel and Egypt.
