Israel warned its citizens on Wednesday against visiting Tunisia, where Jewish pilgrims will celebrate a religious festival later this month, citing the threat of jihadist attack. It also said any...
The United States has for several decades played a mediating role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while remaining Israel's main supporter. On May 14, 1948, David Ben Gurion founds the Jewish...
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...
In keeping with his inclusive approach to his role, when Pope Francis visits Egypt on Friday he will meet with the head of the most important institution in the Islamic world as well as leaders of...
US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and top brass in Cairo on Thursday, pledging support for the American ally on his first regional tour. The brief visit,...
The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior Islamic State group cleric and 18 jihadists in air strikes in the Sinai Peninsula where the extremists are waging an insurgency. The...
Egyptian security forces killed a gunman suspected of shooting dead a policemen near St Catherine's monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Three other officers...
St Catherine's monastery is located at the foot of Mount Sinai One policeman has been killed by gunmen who opened fire on a checkpoint near St Catherine's monastery in Egypt's south Sinai, officials...
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...
Egyptian Coptic Christians observed Easter Mass under tight security on Saturday with the ancient minority still reeling from twin church bombings that killed dozens just days before. In Saint Mark's...
Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared a state of emergency following the attacks on two churches. The...
A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, as authorities closed a border crossing over security threats, officials...
Egypt prepared to impose a state of emergency Monday after jihadist bombings killed dozens at two churches in the deadliest attacks in recent memory on the country's Coptic Christian minority....
The twin bombings of churches in Egypt suggest that Islamic State group jihadists are lashing out as they find themselves coming under increasing pressure in Iraq and Syria, analysts say. The group's...
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at a church north of Cairo, the second hours later outside a church in Alexandria,...
Two blasts targeting Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday have killed at least 42 people, officials say. In Alexandria, an explosion outside St Mark's Coptic church killed 13 people. Pope...
A bomb blast at a church north of Cairo killed at least 15 people and wounded dozens who had gathered for Palm Sunday mass, state media reported, in the latest apparent attack on Egypt's Coptic...
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...
Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, U. S., Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to U.S....
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi has defended his government’s strategy in the fight against jihadists in Sinai Peninsula, where dozens of Christians have fled after a string of jihadist...
