(ROUGH CUT -- NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Egyptian troops killed as many as six Islamist militants after storming their hideout near the isolated border with Israel on Sunday, security sources and eyewitnesses said.<br/> <br />The troops found the militants in the settlement of al-Goura, about 15 km (10 miles) east of the frontier, as they searched for jihadists who killed 16 Egyptian border guards a week ago.<br/> <br />The latest clash is part of a security sweep that began on Wednesday (August 8) and is the biggest military operation in the region since Egypt's 1973 war with Israel.<br/> <br />No one has claimed responsibility for killing the border guards.
