Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reported the dismantling of three Al Qaida-aligned cells. Officials said security forces captured insurgency cells that targeted police officers. The officials said the cells included one aligned with Ajnad Misr, which emerged in January 2014. “Police efforts resulted in the arrests of terrorist elements of these cells, which […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reported the dismantling of three Al Qaida-aligned cells. Officials said security forces captured insurgency cells that targeted police officers. They said the cells included one aligned with Ajnad Misr, which emerged in January 2014. “Police efforts resulted in the arrests of terrorist elements of these cells, which targeted […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Islamist militias have been targeting police in daily attacks. Officials said the militias, led by Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, were focusing operations on police and the Central Security Forces. They said Ansar and its offshoots were tracking everybody from new recruits to senior officers. On April 23, a brigadier general […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has determined that Muslim Brotherhood fighters were receiving weapons and combat training in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Officials said the Egyptian intelligence community was tracing the flow of Brotherhood members to and from the Gaza Strip. The officials said the Brotherhood was granted at least two facilities in southern […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida’s latest militia has raised its profile in Egypt. Al Qaida’s Ajnad Misr militia has claimed responsibility for what was termed one of the most sophisticated bombing attacks in the Islamist revolt. Ajnad said it conducted a triple bombing outside Cairo University on April 2 that killed a senior […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian Army has identified and raided insurgency strongholds in the Sinai Peninsula. Officials said the Army, backed by the Central Security Forces, stormed several suspected Al Qaida-aligned strongholds in northern Sinai. They said 21 alleged fighters were captured in military operations on March 26. “Some of them escaped from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has been constructing a security barrier in the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Officials said the military has directed the building of a wall in northeastern Sinai to prevent attacks by Al Qaida-aligned insurgents. The officials said the barrier would surround the provincial capital of North Sinai, El Arish, a key […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The founder of the leading insurgency militia in Egypt has been killed. Ansar Beit Maqdis said one of its founders was killed in an explosion in the Sinai Peninsula on March 11. Ansar identified the casualty as Tawfiq Mohammed Fareej, who led major operations against the Egyptian Army. “We mourn […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Prosecutors have determined that the ousted Muslim Brotherhood was sponsoring insurgency cells in Egypt. Prosecutors have charged an unspecified number of Islamists with forming Brotherhood cells assigned to attack the Army and police. The prosecutors said the attacks took place in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria in 2013. “They […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida has intensified attacks on Egypt’s natural gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula. So far, Al Qaida-aligned militias have blown up the Arab Gas Pipeline four times in 2014. The latest operation was on Feb. 25 when a portion of the pipeline, which supplies neighboring Jordan, was bombed south […]