The security presence in Al-Arish is worse than at the height of Operation Sinai, reports Mada Masr, as a large-scale security campaign gathers pace.

The Egyptian Armed Forces foiled a terrorist attack on a security outpost in the North Sinai city of Sheikh Zuweid, spokesperson for the Armed Forces Colonel Tamer al-Refaei said in a Facebook post.

Egyptian security officials said on Wednesday that militants have beheaded four people in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula.

Security forces have expanded the house demolitions of alleged terrorism suspects following a spate of attacks on security checkpoints in residential areas in Arish in late June. According to residents, the homes of several wanted suspects in the al-Salayma and al-Safa neighborhoods were recently destroyed. Some of the homes had …

In this series of articles, Al Jazeera examines how Twitter in the Middle East has changed since the Arab Spring. Government talking points are being magnified through thousands of accounts during politically fraught times and silencing people on Twitter is only part of a large-scale effort by governments to stop human …

Recent terror attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula have security forces on guard, especially as the country hosts the Africa Cup of Nations soccer competition, which is expected to draw some 50,000 tourists to six locations in Egypt this year. Security is a sensitive subject with Egyptian officials, and multiple deadly Sinai attacks in June …

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Sunday that his country has succeeded in destroying the infrastructure of terrorist organizations six years after the June 30 revolution that toppled former president Mohamed Morsi.

Citizens of the North Sinai capital lived through two nights of terror this week, as Province of Sinai militants have launched a series of coordinated attacks on six checkpoints, including some securing routes leading into the city’s downtown and one guarding the Mar Mina church west of Arish city. Nine …

The Egyptian army killed seven civilians, including a 12-year-old boy, on Wednesday night as it shelled residential areas in northern Sinai in response to a deadly suicide attack on police officers earlier that day, accoring to tribal sources and eyewitnesses.

Seven police officers have been killed in a jihadist attack in restive North Sinai, Egypt’s interior ministry said on Wednesday.