The Egyptian army has yet to officially announce the end of the anti-terrorism operation it launched in the Sinai Peninsula in 2018. But the expansion of development projects in Sinai with the aim of resettling a large number of residents is a sign that the government is signaling the beginning …

EL-ARISH – At least five Egyptians were abducted by Islamic State militants on Tuesday in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, security officials said.

Egyptian security services revealed on Wednesday details of a massacre that took place in the Upper Egypt village of Abu Hizam, Qena Governorate, where 17 victims were either killed or wounded.

Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams of Seattle was arrested on Friday before a flight to Amsterdam at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state. He planned to subsequently fly from the Dutch city to Cairo, according to a Tuesday press release from the Department of Justice.

Shoes and a phone were what Peter Habashy found on the street in front of his father Nabil’s house in Bir al-Abd, North Sinai, after the neighbors called him and told him they’d heard gunshots last November. Nabil Habashy had been kidnapped earlier that evening.

Fear is reigning among Egypt’s Christians following the killing of a coreligionist by a branch of the Islamic State (IS) in northern Sinai.

Egypt’s interior ministry said Monday it killed three “terrorist elements” in the Sinai Peninsula suspected of involvement in the execution of a Coptic Christian claimed by an Islamic State-affiliated group.

An Islamic State (IS)-affiliated group has claimed the execution of a Coptic Christian and two tribesmen in Egypt’s restive Sinai, in a video posted on its Telegram channel.

Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism warned that the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization has called on its “lone wolves” to conduct attacks during Ramadan.

Since 2014, dozens of Sinai’s Bedouin tribesmen known for working as informants for the Egyptian military have been executed amid a lack of official protection