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 said it was beginning operations in the Sinai peninsula,...
Tag: Egyptian Crisis
Egypt Sets Up ‘national Council’ To Combat ‘terror’
Egypt has created a "national council" to combat the rise of Islamist "terrorism" which has targeted its security forces and Coptic Christian minority, in a presidential decree issued on Wednesday....
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 force and police, the military said Saturday. The Egyptian...
Egypt Police Trap and Kill Top Militants
Egyptian police have killed two leaders of the Hasam militia in a shootout after intercepting them as they relocated to a new hideout on Cairo's outskirts, the government said Tuesday. The interior...
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 its western border, the military said in statements on Sunday....
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 Red Sea beach resort, adding to the woes of Egypt's hobbled tourism industry....
Six Tourists Wounded In Egypt Beach Resort Stabbing
An assailant wounded six tourists in Egypt after attacking them with a knife on a beach in the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Friday, the interior ministry said The assailant has been arrested...
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 attacks targeting the country's security forces, the interior ministry said. The...
Egypt Police Kill 6 IS Sympathisers In Shootout
Egyptian police killed six militants who allegedly adhered to the Islamic State group's beliefs when a gunfight erupted Monday during a raid on their Nile valley hideout, the government said. The...
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 the restive Sinai Peninsula, officials said. The attack on Friday was one the deadliest...
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 State group is conducting an insurgency, the military said. Security...
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, the military said in a statement. The military said it killed 40...
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 group militants are waging a deadly insurgency. Ambulances raced to...
Epic Struggle of Film About Cairo On Eve of Revolution
Everyone thought Tamer El Said had gone mad in the decade it took him to make his film "In the Last Days of the City". "My friends would look at me with a mixture of pity and sarcasm when they asked...
Egypt’s Sisi Ratifies Handover of Islands To Saudi Arabia
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a deal that had sparked protests and a police crackdown, the cabinet said Saturday....
Egypt’s Sisi Ratifies Island Handover To Saudi Arabia
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a deal that had sparked protests and a police crackdown, the cabinet said Saturday....
Egypt Extends State of Emergency
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi extended a state of emergency declared after twin church bombings in April by jihadists, in a decree issued in the official gazette on Thursday. The renewed...
Egypt Court Rules Against Island Transfer To Saudi
An Egyptian court on Tuesday ruled that previous judicial decisions in favour of transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia were invalid, a judicial official and a lawyer said. Egyptian courts...
Egypt Parliament Approves Island Transfer To Saudi
Egypt's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial maritime accord with Saudi Arabia that transfers two strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal,...
Egypt Parliament Approves Island Transfer To Saudi
Egypt's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial maritime accord with Saudi Arabia that transfers two strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal,...