News Egypt North Sinai: Two killed in suicide bombing in Egypt's North Sinai
A suicide bomber killed two people in Egypt's restive North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there. The victims of the bombing were a civilian and a member of the ...
News Egypt North Sinai: 20 militants killed by airstrikes in Egypt's restive Sinai
North Sinai is a hotbed for radical Islamists, who have claimed a series of deadly attacks on security forces in the largely desert region Egypt has battled an insurgency in North Sinai since the 2011 ...
News Egypt North Sinai: Egypt's government mulls establishing joint desalination projects with private sector
Thus, Egypt is implementing 19 desalination plants with a total capacity of 626,000 cubic metres per day in North Sinai, South Sinai, Matrouh, Port Said, and the Red Sea governorates. Additionally, ...
News Egypt North Sinai: Egypt- Remembering 103 battalion's brave battle against IS in Sinai
The story began when a widescale militant attack that took place against a checkpoint for Al-Sa'ak'a forces (Egypt's Special Forces) based in the North Sinai's city of Rafah. The attack was ...
News Egypt North Sinai: Six civilians killed in ambush in Sinai, Egypt
Unknown armed men on Wednesday killed six civilians in an ambush in Egypt's restive Sinai region, witnesses reported. The ambush was mounted on a road, west of al-Arish, the capital city of North ...
News Egypt North Sinai: HRW: Abuses in Egypt's Sinai amount to war crimes
In late 2017, North Sinai was the scene of the deadliest attack in Egypt's modern history when fighters killed more than 300 worshippers at a mosque, without any group claiming responsibility. In ...
News Egypt North Sinai: If You Are Afraid for Your Lives, Leave Sinai! Egyptian Security Forces and ISIS-Affiliate Abuses in North Sinai
The conflict in North Sinai escalated dramatically after July ... Governments currently transferring weapons to Egypt, including the United States, United Kingdom, and France, have a ...
News Egypt North Sinai: HRW accuses Egypt forces, militants of Sinai 'war crimes'
Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused both Egyptian security forces and insurgents of committing "war crimes" in North Sinai, the scene of a bloody years-long insurgency and military crackdown. "While Egyptian military and police forces were responsible for the majority of abuses documented
News Egypt North Sinai: Egypt: Serious Abuses, War Crimes in North Sinai
Egyptian military and police forces in the Sinai Peninsula are committing serious and widespread abuses against civilians, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Some of these abuses, part of an ongoing campaign against members of the local ISIS affiliate, the Sinai Province group, amount to war crimes.
News Egypt North Sinai: Is it safe to travel to Egypt? Government safety rating and terrorism risk for visiting Brits
However, parts of Egypt are particularly dangerous, according the FCO. The government advises against all travel to North Sinai (the part of Egypt between Cairo and Israel) due to the “significant ...
News Egypt North Sinai: Archaeologists Discover Ancient 2,600-Year-Old Military Fortress in Egypt
the last native dynasty to rule Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 BC. The discovery was made in north Sinai, in an archaeological site known as Tal al-Kidwa, according to the Egyptian Ministry ...
News Egypt North Sinai: Egypt says 16 suspected militants killed in Sinai
Egypt’s interior ministry said on Tuesday 16 suspected militants have been killed in North Sinai, where security forces have for years been battling a local affiliate of ISIS extremist group. ...
