Seven Egyptian policemen were killed in an attack claimed by the IS-local affiliate group known as “Sinai Province” in restive North Sinai. Four gunmen were also killed in the attack on police near the Sinai [ More … ]
A new report highlighted the unprecedented alliance,between Egypt and Israel, to combat terrorism in Sinai. In an a report titled:”Secret Alliance: Israel Carries Out Airstrikes in Egypt, With Cairo’s O.K”, New York Times wrote that for [ More … ]
Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from January 13 to help tackle “the dangers and funding of terrorism,” state news agency MENA said on Tuesday. Last April, Egypt first [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities said,”Dozens of men wearing military combat uniforms and armed with automatic machine guns carried out the deadly assault on a Sufi mosque in northern Sinai,”reported the CNN. Twenty-five to 30 attackers arrived in [ More … ]
Right after al-Radwah mosque attack in Sinai, President Trump decried the attack on “innocent and defenseless worshipers” and used the occasion to again denounce extremist Islamist ideology. He also renewed calls for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, [ More … ]
At least 300 people have died in a militant attack on a mosque in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula in one of the worst terrorist incidents the country has seen in recent years. On Friday, Egypt was [ More … ]
There is a lack of preparedness in countering the insurgency and the wave of repression has not led to an improved security situation, on the contrary, Cairo has now become more of a target, said [ More … ]
It seems that Egypt has lost hope in the revival of tourism in Sharm el-Sheikh. “Egypt has seemingly given up hope that the UK’s flight ban to its popular winter sun destination of Sharm el-Sheikh [ More … ]
Egypt’s al-Sisi has named a new armed forces chief of staff. In a brief statement, the presidency said that al-Sisi has appointed former defense ministry secretary general Mohammed Farid Hegazy to the post. His predecessor [ More … ]
Ambush by unknown gunmen kills four Egyptian policemen in region that has been prone to militant Islamist insurgency. Egyptian officials say four policemen were killed in an ambush in the north of the country’s Sinai [ More … ]
The attack was one of the deadliest against the military in an insurgency that has killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers in the past four years Egypt held funerals on Saturday for at least 21 [ More … ]
The Egyptian military also said it killed 40 militants as it clashed with assailants in North Sinai Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where [ More … ]
Egypt is currently battling several armed groups concentrated mainly in the Sinai Peninsula Egypt’s air force struck a unit of ‘Sinai Province’ , killing 12 members of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group and destroying four [ More … ]
The gunmen opened fire on a bus in the city of Minya in southern Egypt – around 245 km south of Cairo. The bus, which was thought to have been carrying around 50 Coptic Christians, was heading [ More … ]
A colonel in the Egyptian military was killed and three recruits injured on Sunday when their armored vehicle was hit by an explosion in the Sinai peninsula, according to security sources. The Sinai-based IS affiliate, [ More … ]
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