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 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 determined that Hamas and its Palestinian allies established rocket launch sites in the northeastern section of the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian security sources said Hamas and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip have developed an underground infrastructure of rockets and tunnels in northeastern Sinai. The sources said the infrastructure […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt’s natural gas pipeline has again been bombed. Egyptian sources said unidentified attackers blew up the Arab Gas Pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula on Aug. 7. The sources said this marked the eighth attack on the pipeline in 2014. The bombing was said to have taken place near Sheik Zweid, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com RAMALLAH — Egypt has blocked an Islamist insurgency strike on Israel. The Palestinian news agency Maan said the Egyptian Army killed a would-be suicide bomber who tried to infiltrate an Israel Army base along the Egyptian border. Maan quoted Egyptian military sources as saying that the bomber was killed by Egyptian troops […]
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 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 — Egypt’s military has targeted the Al Qaida leadership in the Sinai Peninsula. The military has been attacking strongholds of Ansar Beit Maqdis in northeastern Sinai in late February. The military has designated several of these targets as containing the leadership of the shadowy Al Qaida-aligned militia in Egypt. “There is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reported the seizure of air defense systems in the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Officials said the Egyptian Army confiscated shoulder-fired air defense systems in northern Sinai. They identified the systems as the Russian-origin SA-7, captured near the Sinai border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. “Ten surface-to-air missiles were confiscated […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt’s military has deployed its U.S.-origin Apache attack helicopter fleet to track and destroy suspected insurgency strongholds in the Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said the Egyptian Air Force has deployed up to a dozen AH-64 Apache attack helicopters in Sinai in mid-2013. They said the Apache fleet patrols the skies […]