The North Sinai governorate in eastern Egypt appears to be one of the world’s few remaining regions untouched by an outbreak of coronavirus.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Monday that four “wanted criminals” were killed after an exchange of fire in al-Manzala city, Dakahlia Governorate, during a raid on a home that authorities have described as a “drug trafficking hotbed.”

Kogalymavia and the Prince Group, the owners of the Russian plane, Airbus A231, that crashed in Sinai in 2015, launched a prosecution of Egypt before the International Arbitration Court in the Hague, Al Araby Al Jadeed reported on Friday.

Today, Wednesday, the Egyptian army executed Hesham Ashmawy, who was convicted of carrying out several terrorist attacks in the country.

An Egyptian criminal court today sentenced to death a former Egyptian military officer, who defected from the army and joined jihadists, along with 36 other militants, for their alleged responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks in the country.

Eight men were executed yesterday in Egypt in what is thought to be the first death sentences carried out in the country so far in 2020. The defendants were among 17 men who had been sentenced to death in a military court in May 2019 and accused of attacking three …

A senior Egyptian military officer is among several killed in a bombing that targeted army personnel in the country’s restive Sinai peninsula, medical sources said on Tuesday.

Eight men sentenced to death by an Alexandria military court in October 2018 for their alleged involvement in deadly attacks on churches in Cairo, Tanta and Alexandria were executed on Monday, according to lawyer Osama Bayoumi.

Maj. Gen. Ahmed Abdel Khalek, the Egyptian intelligence officer in charge of Cairo’s Palestinian portfolio, arrived in the Gaza Strip Feb. 10 as head of an Egyptian security delegation that made a field trip along the Egyptian-Gazan border as part of the new Egyptian preparations to boost border security and prevent extremists from entering the Sinai …

Militants killed and wounded seven Egyptian soldiers in restive North Sinai on Sunday, Egypt’s military said. The army said it “foiled” an attack on security facilities, “killing 10 terrorists and destroying a four-wheel drive used by the terrorist elements.”