Special to WorldTribune.com from CAIRO — Egypt has maintained its counter-insurgency offensive in northeastern Sinai. The military said the crackdown included the capture of 84 suspected insurgents in both Sinai as well as along the adjacent Suez Canal. The insurgents were said to have facilitated the flow of weapons to Ansar Beit Maqdis from neighboring […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has called for an intensified revolt in Egypt. In a rare statement, ISIL urged its followers to attack the Egyptian military and security forces in the Sinai Peninsula. ISIL also called on Islamic groups to behead their enemies. “Cut off their heads,” ISIL […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian Army has been stunned by a major insurgency strike in the Sinai Peninsula. At least 11 soldiers were killed in a bombing on a highway in northeastern Sinai on Sept. 2. Officials said an improvised explosive device believed planted by Islamist fighters targeted an army armored personnel carrier […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reported another insurgency network that targeted the nation’s capital. Officials said security agencies were targeting the so-called Helwan Brigades, believed linked to the ousted Muslim Brotherhood. They said Helwan was operating around the sprawling southern Cairo neighborhood. “They appear to have the support of much larger terrorist networks,” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has concluded that a foreign intelligence agency could have helped a major Al Qaida-aligned attack on the military near the Libyan border. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said a foreign intelligence agency was believed responsible for the financing of an attack that killed 22 soldiers near the Libyan border on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has been ringed by a growing presence of Al Qaida, a report said. The Institute for National Security Studies has asserted that Israel was surrounded by Al Qaida movements on all of its borders. The Tel Aviv-based institute cited Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant as well […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has been battling Al Qaida-aligned insurgents near the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency reported heavy fighting between the Egyptian Army and unidentified Islamist insurgents in the Sinai Peninsula. The agency said at least eight insurgents were killed and dozens of others were arrested near Sheik […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt faces what could be an insurgency abduction campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said Al Qaida-aligned insurgency militias have been kidnapping Christians in central Sinai. The sources said at least two Coptic merchants were abducted and held for ransom in separate incidents in mid-June. “This could signal a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has deployed a major military force near southern Israel. Egyptian sources said the Egyptian 3rd Army has deployed a battalion-size force in the Sinai Peninsula near Israel. They said the force, estimated at 400, was located outside the Egyptian resort of Taba. “There is an alert of another terrorist […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — At a seminar, former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said Egypt was struggling to eliminate Al Qaida from Sinai. In an address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Morell, who retired from the agency in 2013, said Al Qaida was spreading throughout the Middle East and for […]