Egypt Announces Highest State of Alert
Egypt has announced the country’s highest state of alert, following the launch of a major counter-terrorism operation. Earlier, the army ...
Tag: Sinai Peninsula
Egypt Kills 30 Extremists In Sinai
Egyptian forces have killed 30 extremists during several days of security operations in the Sinai Peninsula involving the army, air ...
Global Terror Attacks Down, Iran Again Top ‘state Sponsor’
The US State Department said Wednesday that global terror incidents and deaths fell last year, while it maintained its designation ...
Egypt Says 9 Militants Killed In Sinai
Security forces have killed nine militants in the Sinai Peninsula and also destroyed 15 vehicles transporting weapons into Egypt across ...
Egypt Police Probe Motives of Red Sea Beach Attacker
Police on Saturday questioned the suspected jihadist who stabbed to death two German women and wounded four others at a ...
Five Egypt Police Shot Dead Near Capital
Assailants killed five Egyptian policemen in a shooting south of Cairo on Friday, in the latest of a series of ...
Egypt Holds Funerals For At Least 21 Soldiers Killed In Sinai
Egypt held funerals on Saturday for at least 21 soldiers killed in an attack by the Islamic State group in ...
Egypt Military Says 26 Soldiers Killed Or Wounded In Sinai Attacks
Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where the Islamic ...
Egypt Says 26 Soldiers Killed Or Wounded In Sinai Attacks
Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday in attacks on several checkpoints in Sinai that included car bombings, ...
Suicide Car Bombers Target Egypt Checkpoint In Sinai
Egyptian security officials said two suicide car bombers on Friday struck a security checkpoint in North Sinai where Islamic State ...
Egyptian Warplanes Hit Arms Convoy From Libya
Egyptian warplanes struck a convoy of 12 vehicles about to be driven across the border from Libya carrying weapons and ...
Palestinians Dismiss IS Claim of Israel Policewoman Killing
Palestinian militant factions on Saturday dismissed a claim by the Islamic State group that it was behind the fatal stabbing ...
Gaza Strip In Peril As Hamas Marks Decade In Power
Hamas this week marks 10 years since taking power in Gaza with the Palestinian enclave at risk of conflict and ...
Research Questions Whether Israel Considered 1967 Atomic Blast
Research suggesting Israel may have considered detonating an atomic device on the eve of the Six-Day War 50 years ago ...
For Egypt, 1967 War Marked End of Pan-Arab Dream
Its vaunted air force destroyed, its army humbled -- the Six-Day War of 1967 dealt Egypt a shock it has ...
Six Days That Changed the Face of the Middle East
The Arab-Israeli war of June 1967, or Six-Day War, radically changed the map of the Middle East. Between June 5 ...
50 Years After Six-Day War, Israeli-Palestinian Divide Widens
Israelis and Palestinians mark 50 years since the Six-Day War next week as the gap between them further widens, with ...
Egypt’s Targeted Christian Copts
Egypt's Copts, targeted by gunmen Friday as they travelled in a bus to a monastery south of Cairo, are the ...
As Trump Sets Out, US and Saudi Arabia Blacklist ‘terrorist’
As US President Donald Trump prepared to head to Saudi Arabia on Friday, Washington and Riyadh issued their first "joint ...
Israel Declassifies Six-Day War Archives
Israel on Thursday released thousands of previously classified official documents charting political decisions during the 1967 Six-Day War when it ...