Christian dignitaries in the Egyptian city of Ismailia have been absorbing a wave of refugees from across the Sinai Peninsula after at least seven Coptic Christians were murdered by militants affiliated with the Islamic State.
ISIS claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the launching of two rockets which were fired into Israel from the Sinai Peninsula and landed in open space in the Eshkol Regional Council on Monday morning.
The Islamic State’s official media outlet claimed Sunday five of its members were killed in an Israeli military airstrike in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula the day before.
A member of Hamas’s naval commando unit defected from the Gaza-based terror organization nearly a year ago to join the Sinai Province — the Islamic State group’s branch in the Sinai Peninsula, Palestinian sources told The Times of Israel.
Some Israeli citizens traveling in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula were undeterred by an urgent warning issued by their government on Tuesday that called on them to return home, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.
Israel on Tuesday advised its citizens in Egypt’s insurgency-hit Sinai peninsula to leave the region, warning of the threat of an imminent attack.
The Israeli government has announced that it finished upgrades to the electronic security fence between Israel and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt has added Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the most successful African soccer players of his generation, to its terror watch list on suspicions he financed the banned Muslim Brotherhood, his lawyer said Tuesday.
An Israeli defense official confirmed that the country has developed a new policy in recent years to allow Egypt to quickly beef up its forces in the volatile Sinai peninsula as part of a shared struggle against Islamic militants.
A truck bomb attack on an Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed at least eight policemen on Monday, officials and state media said.
Islamic State supporters vowed revenge when Egypt executed militant leader Adel Habara by hanging on Thursday.
The Egyptian army as stepped up its campaign against Islamic State loyalists in the Sinai Peninsula against the backdrop of a warming of relations between Cairo and Tehran.
At least 50 Islamic State operatives were reportedly killed and dozens more wounded by Egyptian army artillery attacks in the Sinai Peninsula.
An elite Border Police unit is training for the threat of terrorists affiliated with Islamic State infiltrating Israel from across the border with the Sinai Peninsula to carry out an attack.
Egypt’s interior minister warned in comments published Monday that the country faced “unprecedented challenges” that required a “decisive” response by security forces, accusing the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood of scheming to incite chaos.
There has been a steady and significant decline in terror attacks carried out by the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula in recent months, according to both Egyptian and Israeli sources.
TEL AVIV – Israel is preparing for a scenario in which hundreds of terrorists armed with high trajectory fire as well as anti-tank missiles attack from Sinai, the outgoing commander of the IDF’s Sagi Brigade said this week. Col Yehuda
Intelligence sources have confirmed to Fox News that Egypt has killed the leader of Islamic State forces in the Sinai Peninsula, Abu Dua al-Ansari, in an airstrike.
The Times of Israel reports: Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Islamic State-affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in
The Jerusalem Post reports: An Islamic State operative snuck into the Gaza Strip through Hamas’ system of underground tunnels connecting the Palestinian-ruled area with the Sinai Peninsula, Israel said on Friday.
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The militant Hamas group says Egypt has temporarily reopened its border with the Gaza Strip, the first time the border was opened in three months.
Gunmen shot dead eight plainclothed Egyptian policemen in the Helwan district south of Cairo, the interior ministry said Sunday.
Islamic fundamentalist organization Hamas has been building up its security apparatus near the Egyptian and Israeli border in an attempt improve ties with Cairo, AFP reported Saturday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz at the airport in Ankara on Monday, as the Saudi monarch is en route to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul later this week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is considering ways it could automate aspects of its peacekeeping mission in the Sinai Peninsula, possibly reducing the number of troops deployed to an area struggling with the rise of an Islamic State faction, officials
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s declared intention to hand over control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia has kicked off a storm of vociferous opposition, laced with stinging satire, and dealt a blow to the pride of many
The risk posed to UN peacekeepers by the Islamic State’s growing activity in Sinai can no longer be ignored, an Arab intelligence source told Breitbart Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – Israel announced that it will stop allowing cement into the Gaza Strip after it discovered Hamas is using the material to rebuild its terror tunnels. The material’s original purpose was to help reconstruct homes damaged or destroyed in Israel’s 2014 war with
Ynetnews reports: The Egyptian border guard destroyed a three kilometer long tunnel between Rafah, Egypt and the Gaza Strip, one of the longest tunnels discovered at the border between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, according to Egyptian security sources
TEL AVIV – An Islamic State faction in Sinai has been making gains against the Egyptian army and setting up autonomous enclaves in the peninsula, a Salafi militant source in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem. He claimed that the Arab and international media collude with the Egyptian army to downplay IS victories. IS, said the source, has driven troops out of the strategic Sinai towns of Sheik Zweid and Al Arish.
Egypt finally conceded that “terrorism” was behind a Russian passenger plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula last October that killed all 224 tourists aboard.
Officials suspect that an EgyptAir mechanic planted a bomb on the Russia-bound plane that crashed over north Egypt in October, killing 224 people on board.
The Times of Israel reports: The Islamic State terrorist organization has made it clear that Israel is its next target, high-ranking army officers told reporters in a briefing Tuesday. The IS affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula, Wilayat Sinaa, has been
JAFFA, Israel – Egyptian authorities have stepped up security measures ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, as opposition groups call for rebellion. Welayat Sinai, an Islamic State affiliate in the Egyptian-controlled Sinai peninsula,
The Times of Israel reports: Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip and pulled out operating crews on Thursday as the Egyptian Army engaged terrorist forces in the adjacent Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian soldiers, backed with airstrikes,
The Arab Spring revolution that spread to various countries after it started in January 2011, when Tunisians assembled in the streets of their capital and overthrew their longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has a been a failure, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Well before the latest threat from Islamic State, Israel’s military had stepped up intelligence and preparedness efforts with the militant group in mind. In particular, Israeli forces are keeping an eye on Islamic State’s branch in Egypt’s lawless Sinai peninsula,
A local Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate has claimed responsibility for a gun and bomb attack Tuesday on a hotel in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula that reportedly left seven people dead, including two judges, and at least a dozen more wounded.
TEL AVIV – Although the Islamic State terror group has already taken credit for downing a Russian passenger plane over the Sinai Peninsula, such a claim has not convinced many within the Arab world who see events through the lens
Thousands of Russians in Egypt decided to defy security warnings and continue their vacations following the October 31 plane crash that killed 224 people traveling to Moscow.
