Special to WorldTribune.com A mortar attack launched by an affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) killed 15 Egyptian policemen at a North Sinai checkpoint on March 19. The attack, which occurred in El-Arish, killed two police captains, a first lieutenant and 12 conscripts, an Egyptian Interior Ministry statement said on March 20. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egypt has intensified its effort to quell the terrorist threat in the Sinai Peninsula, killing more than 60 jihadists in the past two weeks. On Jan. 3, an operation that included attack helicopters, fighter jets and ground forces killed at least 25 terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Egyptian affiliate of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has ramped up the number of attacks in the provincial capital of the Sinai Peninsula. Sinai Province jihadists have carried out several attacks in El Arish in the last two months, including a strike on a hotel that hosted Egyptian judges […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Seven people were killed in a coordinated attack on a Sinai hotel by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) affiliate in Egypt. Egypt’s health ministry said on Nov. 25 that two election judges, four policeman and one civilian were killed on Nov. 24 in the attack on the Swiss Inn hotel […]
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 CAIRO — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has quietly established a presence in Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said ISIL has sent scores of operatives to Sinai to bolster the Islamic revolt in the peninsula. They said ISIL was helping Ansar Beit Maqdis, deemed the largest Islamic rebel militia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has been concerned over the prospect of rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Security sources reported a stream of rocket attacks from the neighboring Gaza Strip during the 50-day Hamas war with Israel. The sources said the rockets, believed to have been fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, […]
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 — The Egyptian Army has again been struck hard in the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency said four soldiers were killed on June 28 in northeastern Sinai. MENA said the soldiers were ambushed by suspected Islamic insurgents as they were driven in a pickup along the highway […]
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 […]