The Egyptian cabinet has approved a decision put forward by Sisi to allocate 90,000 acres of state-owned land in the Rabaa and Bir Al-Abed areas of Sinai to the Army’s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). [ More … ]
The Egyptian army published a statement with photos of slain insurgents and their allegedly confiscated weapons in Islamic State-affiliated region Egypt’s military reportedly killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate [ More … ]
The human rights organization DAWN has once again called on the Egyptian government to release Abdullah Boumediene who was forcibly disappeared from Sinai when he was just 12 years old. Abdullah has spent four years [ More … ]
The army spokesman says casualties include an officer but did not provide details on the number of those killed or wounded. Ten soldiers have been killed or wounded in a blast targeting an armoured vehicle [ More … ]
The dispute with Ethiopia over control of the Nile is emblematic of the Egyptian president’s short-sightedness, and it’s a consistent pattern. Yesterday in Washington, officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met to discuss the ongoing [ More … ]
Under Al-#Sisi’s 7-year war on terror in Sinai! 14 villages in Egypt’s Sinai have been “wiped off the map”!. “a 50-KM area from the border erased! “Army didn’t leave either animal, tree, bird or human! [ More … ]
Amid threats posed by the Islamic State in Sinai, Egypt’s minister of planning announced $316 million worth of investments in the Sinai Peninsula for fiscal year 2020, plans seen by observers as skeptical. The Al-Monitor [ More … ]
Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt issued a decree renewing the state of emergency in Egypt for 3 months starting Thursday, July 25, for the ninth time in a row since it was imposed in April [ More … ]
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 … ]
Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ More … ]
A new report released by Stratfor -an American geopolitical intelligence platform-highlight Egypt’s spendings in arms sales during Al-Sisi’s rule despite the north African country’s wrecked economy. The report reads that over the past few years,” Egypt has opened the [ More … ]
Despite going back to school after a 7-month suspension in the areas of Arish, Sheikh Zuweid, Bir al-Abed, Hasna and Nakhil, however the humanitarian crisis is still continuing in North Sinai with no horizon for [ More … ]
Italian oil and gas group Eni has denied media reports that it has made a major new discovery in Egypt. Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi said,”There are prospects and new (geological) structures in Egypt but [ More … ]
Israeli forces carried out strikes in the Egyptian-ruled Sinai Peninsula recently, targeting militants positions in northern Sinai, witnesses claimed. According to a report by the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed media outlet, Israeli aircraft hit militants targets inside [ More … ]
Jared Kushner, United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, and Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, concluded their visit to Cairo. The US delegation’s brief time in the Egyptian capital [ More … ]
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