From 1948 to 1967, residents of Egyptian Sinai and neighbouring Gaza considered the area as a single territory. But in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel captured Sinai and the Gaza Strip.

The whistleblower whose video revelations about President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s palaces sparked mass protests and a fresh crackdown in Egypt told Middle East Eye in an exclusive interview that he will not stop until the dictator is removed.

The death of nine civilians in an unidentified missile strike south of Bir al-Abd on Saturday night topped the news coming out of Sinai this week.

The Egyptian-South Korean Naval Forces on Saturday carried out a joint maritime drill in the Mediterranean Sea, with the participation of several maritime units from the two countries.

Human rights activists in the United States are questioning Washington’s decision to push ahead with legislation that would transfer $1.3bn in military aid to Egypt, in light of recent protests calling for the fall of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s government.

Exiled contractor Mohamed Ali published a video on Monday evening calling on Egyptians to hold protests on Tuesday afternoon against autocratic President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Egypt’s Interior Minister Mahmoud Tawfiq reportedly ordered the release of those detained during a clampdown on anti-regime protests in September, Egyptian security sources said Monday.

Activists have revealed details of the mysterious death of the Egyptian defence minister’s bodyguard, the New Khaleej reported on Sunday.

As anti-government protests erupted across Egypt for the second week in a row on Friday, the Egyptian military retaliated to a terror attack in North Sinai by killing a six-year old and his father.

Egyptian security forces killed 15 fighters in a shootout at a farm in restive North Sinai, the interior ministry said. A statement on Sunday said an armed group was “planning hostile acts targeting military and police forces … in order to destabilise national security”.