Eight peacekeepers, including six Americans killed in Sinai helicopter crash
- 12-Nov-2020
An official briefed on the incident, and who could not be identified by name or nationality, told Reuters it was an accident caused by mechanical failure.
Attack on Eid day kills 8 Egypt police officials in Sinai
- 05-Jun-2019
The northeastern region has long been the hotbed of an insurgency linked to the militant ISIS group and security forces have regularly been hit.
Egypt hangs 15 over attacks on security forces: officials
- 26-Dec-2017
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities on Tuesday executed 15 prisoners convicted of attacks on security forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula, police officials said. The men were hanged in two jails where they had been held since military courts sentenced them for the attacks in the Sinai, where militants are waging an insurgency, the officials said. It […]
Egypt mourns 305 victims of Sinai mosque attack
- 25-Nov-2017
CAIRO: Egypt mourned on Saturday as the death toll from a gun and bomb assault at a mosque rose to 305, including children, in the deadliest attack the country has witnessed. The state prosecution said up to 30 militants in camouflage flying the Islamic State (IS) group’s black banner had surrounded the mosque in North […]
Attack on mosque in Egypt’s Sinai kills at least 235
- 24-Nov-2017
CAIRO: Armed attackers on Friday killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on a packed mosque in Egypt’s restive North Sinai province, in the country’s deadliest attack in recent memory. A bomb explosion ripped through the Rawda mosque frequented by Sufis roughly 40 kilometres west of the North Sinai capital of […]
Airliner broke up in mid-air: Russian aviation official
- 02-Nov-2015
A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this.
Russian delegation arrives in Egypt to begin crash investigation
- 01-Nov-2015
CAIRO: Russian's transport minister and a team of high-level investigators has arrived in Cairo to help Egyptian authorities determine what caused a Russian airliner to crash in the Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board.
26 killed as attacks rock Egypt's Sinai
- 30-Jan-2015
CAIRO: Militants fired a barrage of rockets and set off a car bomb Thursday killing at least 26 people, mostly soldiers, in Egypt's North Sinai province, where security forces are battling a raging Islamist insurgency.
IS militants leave signed note on beheaded corpse in Sinai: residents
- 10-Sep-2014
EGYPT: Residents in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula said on Wednesday they found a beheaded corpse bearing a note signed by an Islamist militant group linked to the Syria and Iraq-based Islamic State, accusing the victim of being an Israeli spy.
Attack on Egypt security convoy kills 11 in Sinai: security sources
- 02-Sep-2014
CAIRO: An attack on a convoy killed 11 members of the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security and medical sources said.