ISISReuters Islamic State group terrorists ambushed a checkpoint in the northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing at least five troops from the security forces, officials said, according toThe Associated Press. At least six other troops were wounded in the attack in the town of Sheikh Zuweid ...
The kidnapping also means that Egypt is now fighting ISIS on two fronts: to the west in Libya and in the east in the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt has dispatched its foreign minister to New York where they're hoping to rally as much international support as they can for this military intervention...
Earlier in the day, the British government also said there is a significant possibility that the crash was caused by an explosive device on board the aircraft. Evidence suggests the jetlinermay have been brought down by a bomb, and they were suspending flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula ...
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said it isn’t increasing security in either Sharm el-Sheikh or its airport given “there is no indication [the plane crash] was a terrorist operation.” Egypt has struggled with ISIS-backed militants in the Sinai Peninsula in recent years. ...
Early Friday morning an Aerojet commercial airliner crashed in the North Sinai, forty-six miles southeast of its capital and largest city, El-Arish on the Mediterranean coast. All 224 people were killed, and all but three of them were Russians. The airplane departed from Egypt’s primary ...
The group claims to have been behind theapparent bombing of a Russian jetlinerthat crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula at the end of October, and U.S. officials say it'svery likely that claim is legitimate. Deadly attacks across Paris42 photos ...
An Egyptian ground service official who carried out a pre-flight inspection of the Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula said Sunday that the Airbus A321-200 appeared to be in good condition. The Metrojet plane, bound for St. Petersburg in Russia, crashed 23 minutes after...
“ISIS likely seeks to reduce Egyptian security force positions in the Sinaiin order to increase its freedom of maneuver as it escalates to more aggressive campaigns, potentially involving international targets such as the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based in Sinai,” the Institute for ...
It operates in West Africa, Libya, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan and the Philippines, and has followers in Europe and elsewhere. That, in addition to as many as 18,000 fighters still on the loose between Syria and Iraq, according to a report issued by the Pentagon’s Inspector ...
Military action: No bombing in Iraq or Syria, but Egypt has bombed the ISIS affiliate in Libya. The Egyptian army is fighting the ISIS affiliate in the Sinai Desert. Iraq Army: 274,600 troops Navy: 3,700 Air force: 5,100 Fixed-wing combat aircraft: Unknown ...