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 — 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 — An Egyptian court has outlawed Hamas. A Cairo court has ordered the end of the Hamas presence in the Egyptian capital. The so-called Court for Urgent Matters ruled that Hamas must suspend activities throughout the country. “Hamas is a terrorist organization that acts against interests of Egypt,” the tribunal said. […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Egyptian intelligence community has determined that Al Qaida has sent scores of operatives to conduct bombings and assassinations in an effort to undermine the new military-backed regime in Cairo, officials said. On Nov. 20, at least 11 Egyptian Army soldiers were killed and 35 others injured in a car bombing near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Islamist insurgents have assassinated a senior official responsible for the Egyptian crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian sources said a senior Interior Ministry official responsible for counter-insurgency policy has been assassinated. The sources identified the official as Col. Mohammed Mabrouk, shot outside his home in Cairo’s Nasser City on Nov. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reported an intensification of the counter-insurgency campaign in the Sinai Peninsula. The Egyptian military has significantly expanded operations against the Al Qaida-aligned insurgency presence in Sinai. Security sources said scores of suspected insurgency strongholds have been raided this month. “These are joint operations of the military and security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has determined massive recruitment efforts by Al Qaida and the ousted Muslim Brotherhood to attack the military-backed regime. Military sources said Al Qaida and the Brotherhood were focusing on recruiting young Sunni Muslims, most of them teenagers, to attack government installations. They said the bulk of the recruitment was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian Army continues to sustain attacks near the border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. On Oct. 22, at least two Army officers were killed and 12 soldiers injured in a bombing outside Rafah, a city divided between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Officials said suspected Palestinian insurgents detonated a […]