The Egyptian military is facing criticism for a video that shows a soldier shooting a sleeping enemy combatant.

The Egyptian army has recently revealed that eight Egyptian soldiers have been killed and wounded in recent anti-terrorism operations in the Sinai Peninsula. Egyptian military spokesman Col. Gharib Abdel Hafez said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page Aug. 1 that the military operations resulted in the killing …

Egypt’s military says almost 90 fighters were killed in northern Sinai, where fighters loyal to ISIL operate.

An Egyptian court sentenced three persons to death, including the senior aide of Hisham Al-Ashmawy who was executed last year, after finding them guilty of terrorism charges over their alleged involvement in an Al-Qaeda affiliated militant group.

In the last six months of Mohamed Soltan’s prison sentence, he was placed in isolation in Egypt’s notorious Torah Prison, where he was beaten and tortured mentally and physically every day. “I was completely cut off from the rest of the world, with no access to daylight or sense of …

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.