Tag: Sinai Peninsula

Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five ...

US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and top brass in Cairo on Thursday, pledging ...

The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior Islamic State group cleric and 18 jihadists in air strikes in ...

US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis arrived in Cairo Thursday on the latest leg of a regional tour, as ties ...

Egyptian security forces killed a gunman suspected of shooting dead a policemen near St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, ...

St Catherine's monastery is located at the foot of Mount Sinai One policeman has been killed by gunmen who opened ...

A policeman was killed and four more were wounded on Tuesday in a shooting outside St Catherine's monastery in Egypt's ...

Egyptian Copts will celebrate Easter mass on Saturday, marking one of Christianity's most joyous occasions just days after the deadliest ...

Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared ...

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist ...

Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the deadliest ...

The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves ...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at a ...

Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority ...

A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered ...

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is to visit the White House for the first time since he led the military's ...

After four years of tension with the United States, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi now has a fan in the ...

An explosion killed an Egyptian man on Friday in Cairo, the interior ministry said. The blast in the Maadi district, ...

Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings as they clashed with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has defended his government’s strategy in the fight against jihadists in Sinai Peninsula, where dozens ...