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Egypt Kills 30 Extremists In Sinai

Egyptian forces have killed 30 extremists during several days of security operations in the Sinai Peninsula involving...

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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...

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Egypt Says 9 Militants Killed In Sinai

Security forces have killed nine militants in the Sinai Peninsula and also destroyed 15 vehicles transporting weapons...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 facing...

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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...

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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 yet to overcome...

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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 and 10,...

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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...

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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 Middle...

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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...

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Israel Declassifies Six-Day War Archives

Israel on Thursday released thousands of previously classified official documents charting political decisions during...