Egyptian forces have killed 30 extremists during several days of security operations in the Sinai Peninsula involving the army, air force and police, the military said Saturday. The Egyptian authorities are battling an insurgency by the Islamic State (IS) group in North Sinai that has killed hundreds of members of the security forces. The military … Read more
Police on Saturday questioned the suspected jihadist who stabbed to death two German women and wounded four others at a Red Sea beach resort, adding to the woes of Egypt’s hobbled tourism industry. Judicial sources said the man who had swum ashore from a public beach in Hurghada to carry out Friday’s attack confessed to … Read more
Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five others, the interior ministry said early on Tuesday. “Armed elements riding in two vehicles approached a moving security convoy” around 11:45 pm Monday, the ministry said in a statement. The convoy was crossing a roundabout … Read more
A policeman was killed and four more were wounded on Tuesday in a shooting outside St Catherine’s monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai, a security source said. The shooting occurred at a security checkpoint, the source said, but it was not immediately clear who had opened fire. No other information on the incident was immediately available. … Read more
Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by the Islamic State group, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan, one of 19 suspects whose names police made public after the Palm Sunday explosions, the official said. Two suicide … Read more
Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings as they clashed with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula, the military said on Thursday. Fifteen jihadists were also killed in the fighting, the military said in a statement, without saying when the incidents took place. The military said the clashes broke out when … Read more
Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a “war of urban terrorism” in the US, has died in a North Carolina prison. Abdel Rahman, 78, was serving a life-sentence on several convictions when he died of natural causes on … Read more
The mastermind of numerous bomb plots in New York in the early 1990s has died in prison in the US, his family says. Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who preached at mosques in New York, was sentenced to life in 1996 for planning the attacks. He plotted to attack multiple landmarks in New … Read more
An Egyptian girl holds a portrait of Omar Abdel Rahman, who died serving a life sentence for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, during a sit-in to call for his release at the U. S. Embassy in Cairo in August 2011 Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian jihadist spiritual leader … Read more
Security situation in Sinai has deteriorated since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow in 2011 The Egyptian military has launched airstrikes on “terrorist positions” in the Sinai peninsula “to avenge the blood” of its soldiers killed in an attack on a military checkpoint Friday, according to an army statement. While the military did not specifically name the group, … Read more
A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 passengers and crew operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia has crashed in a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, with medics at the site reporting “casualties”. The Airbus A321 and was carrying 200 adult passengers, 17 children and 7 crew en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg when it … Read more