Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s Leviathan has reached a tentative agreement to pump natural gas to Egypt for up to 15 years. In the deal announced on Nov. 25, Leviathan will supply Egypt’s Dolphinus Holdings with up to 4 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year for 10 to 15 years. Egypt will get the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in Egypt claimed responsibility for a bombing on Nov. 24 that killed five people at a hotel in al-Arish in northern Sinai where election judges were staying. Egypt’s Health Ministry reported five dead and 17 wounded in the attack by ISIL affiliate Sinai Province. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) showed how it made an improvised bomb that the terror group said brought down a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. In its English language Dabiq online magazine, ISIL displayed a photo of three simple bomb components, including a soft drink can […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russian authorities on Nov. 17 confirmed for the first time that a bomb brought down a Russian passenger plane in Egypt last month. “According to an analysis by our specialists, a homemade bomb containing up to 1 kilogram of TNT detonated during the flight, causing the plane to break up in mid […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egypt’s military has killed 24 terrorists of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security forces carried out the operation against the Sinai Province jihadists as they hid in a cave in the mountains, according to a report by Reuters. Officials said eight terrorists were arrested […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey An ISIL attack on the Suez Canal, Iran and Russia fomenting strife in Saudi Arabia — such violent scenarios make awful sense. It is now generally accepted that the Russian commercial airliner that crashed in the Sinai fell victim to a terrorist attack through the introduction of a bomb […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration has approved the sale of additional fighter jets and attack helicopters to Egypt. The move came amid improved relations between Washington and Cairo and after U.S. defense firms voiced concern that a major market was slipping away in the wake of recent sales by France and Russia to Egypt. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A top operative of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in Sinai was killed on Nov. 8 in a firefight in Cairo. Egyptian security officials reported that Ashraf Ali Hassanein Gharabali was killed after engaging in a gunfight with police who tried to arrest him in Cario’s El-Marg district. One […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Russia, Britain and several Western European nations sent airliners to Egypt on Oct. 9 to bring home thousands of tourists from the Sinai Peninsula amid an increased terror threat from Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). Thousands of tourists were stranded at the southern Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after foreign […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Intercepted calls between Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula and the terror group’s leaders in Syria included discussions on the downing of a Russian plane, U.S. intelligence officials said. A U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that a message that was transmitted before the crash of […]