Tag Archives: Sinai

ISIS said Saturday that it carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day. “A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock… with a machine gun,” the terrorist group’s Amaq news agency said. …

ISIS on Saturday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack that killed five Egyptian soldiers in the country’s Sinai peninsula on Wednesday, the group said on its Telegram channel. Four others were injured when armed men opened fire early on May 11 at a security post on the coast of northeastern …

Condemning the terrorist attack on Egypt’s the Sinai Peninsula, Hezbollah expressed sympathy for the country’s army.

One officer and ten Egyptian soldiers were killed after “foiling a terrorist attack” on a water-lifting station east of the Suez Canal, an army spokesman said on Saturday. The security personnel were killed after clashing with a group of militants who attacked the station, which also resulted in five others …

Egyptian officials told local sources on late Saturday that an explosion occurred in a gas pipeline in Bir El Abd town located in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the reports, people suspected of being members of ISIL blew up the gas pipeline. Egyptian officials added that the explosion only caused …

Armed group ISIL claims responsibility for the attack in a statement on an ISIL-affiliated website. A roadside bomb exploded in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, killing eight members of Egypt’s security forces, including an officer, while six others were wounded. The troops were riding an armoured vehicle …

Egypt’s military says almost 90 fighters were killed in northern Sinai, where fighters loyal to ISIS operate. Eight Egyptian army soldiers have been killed in recent “anti-terrorism operations”, the armed forces said. According to a statement by the armed forces on Sunday, most of the fighting took place in the …

Egypt will allow scheduled international flights and foreign tourists to resorts that have been least affected by the coronavirus starting from July 1, the cabinet said. Egypt suspended regular international flights in March and shut down restaurants, hotels, and cafes. Airports remain closed to all but domestic and repatriation flights, …

The Egyptian army said today, Sunday, that 15 of its members were killed or injured in recent operations in the Sinai Peninsula, and that 126 terrorists were killed. The General Command of the Armed Forces said in a statement: “As a result of the valiant hostilities of our armed forces …

The Islamic State terrorist group said on Monday it blew up a gas pipeline in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, claiming it was connected to Israel. Security sources earlier said the pipeline hit was a domestic one that connects to a power station in El-Arish, powering homes and factories in central …

Egyptian security forces have killed 83 suspected terrorists and arrested dozens of criminals in the restive North Sinai region during the past month, the army says. According to a statement by the Egyptian Army on Monday, these suspected terrorists were killed in counter-terrorism operations in central and North Sinai between …

A suicide bomber killed two people in Egypt’s restive North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there. The victims of the bombing were a civilian and a member of the security forces, security and medical sources said. The bomber was shot before he reached …

At least four people, including one civilian, have been killed in militant attacks on a number of security checkpoints in Egypt’s northern Sinai, medics and security sources say. Egypt’s Extra News television said on Wednesday that Egyptian forces were exchanging gunfire with the attackers, without providing any initial details on …

At St. Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Egypt’s Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is bathed in green light. A team from Greece are photographing thousands of fragile manuscripts, including some of the earliest copies of the …