Daesh, have claimed responsibility for an attack on a police checkpoint in Ismailia Governorate, eastern Egypt that killed four people and injured 12 others, Anadolu news agency reported.

Suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint on Friday in Egypt’s Suez Canal city of Ismailia, killing at least four people, including three police officers, officials and state-run media said.

An Eyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for beheading another man in a gruesome street murder that shocked the country two months ago.

Egyptian authorities have executed seven men they accused in a criminal case of killing a police officer in the Ismailia governorate.

Egypt has executed seven people over the killing of a police officer in the northeastern city of Ismailiya in 2013, a security official said on Tuesday.

A criminal was shot dead during a shootout with police forces in Ismailia, as part of a crackdown on criminal outposts and other high-risk elements throughout the Suez Canal cities.

A non-commissioned police officer working at the Ismailia bureau was killed during his participation in a security campaign to arrest militants in the city of El Qantara in Ismailia.

Egypt’s Higher State Security Prosecution recently unveiled details regarding the ongoing investigations  into the the Sinai Province group case, in which 555 defendants were accused of being part of the Islamic State (IS) affiliated group.The unveiled details also included confessions regarding the types of training received to form the militant …

Egyptian prison authorities have executed an Egyptian man sentenced to death on charges of killing an Egyptian army officer in the Ismailia province.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that 11 militants were killed another six arrested in a shootout with police forces during a raid in Ismailia Governorate aiming to arrest a group of militant leaders with links to North Sinai.