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 Military Criminal Court on Sunday referred Libyan terrorist Abdel Rahem Mohammed al-Mesmary’s case to Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawky Allam, to gather his religious opinion on executing Mesmary for his involvement in the “Al-Wahat Incident”, which left 16 police officers dead.

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”.

One civilian and seven soldiers, including an officer, were killed at a security checkpoint in the North Sinai city of Bir al-Abd on Friday, in a coordinated attack that was claimed by the Province of Sinai, the Islamic State affiliate in the peninsula.

Fifteen suspected militants were killed on Sunday in a fire exchange with security forces in Al-Arish, North Sinai, a senior security source told Daily News Egypt on Monday.

Italian authorities arrested three people suspected of raping and torturing migrants in a detention centre in north-west Libya on Monday, according to the Italian news agency AKI.

The Egyptian armed forces announced Sept. 2 the completion of the last phase of a border security system as part of a “new monitoring system” for the Border Guard Forces. According to the armed forces, the system would allow all members of the Border Guard Forces to monitor border security in …

Egypt’s Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that nine terrorists were killed following a shootout with police forces in a raid of two hideouts in the al-Obour and 15th of May cities.

At least two Egyptian soldiers were killed and eight injured in a series of attacks by a local Islamic State group (IS) affiliate on several Egyptian army targets in the city of Sheikh Zuwayed, northeastern Sinai.