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Egyptian-Libyan border

Members of a humanitarian convoy of at least 1,500 people, including activists and supporters from Algeria and Tunisia, wave Palestinian flags from a bus as the group travels toward Gaza via Egypt's Rafah Crossing, in Zawiya, Libya, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)
June 13, 2025, 8:34 pm
Activists stopped in Libya and Egypt ahead of planned march to protest Gaza blockade
Demonstrators from 80 countries intended to walk toward Egypt-Gaza border to highlight Israeli restrictions on aid into enclave, but hundreds detained and deported in Cairo
By AP and ToI Staff
An Egyptian soldier mans a checkpoint in el-Arish, 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of Cairo, North Sinai, Egypt, January 31, 2015 (AP Photo)
August 29, 2018, 5:56 pm
Egyptian army says it killed 20 jihadists in Sinai and on Libyan border
In all, some 300 jihadists and 35 soldiers killed in massive operations against Islamist insurgents this year, military says
By Agencies
Smoke rises following an explosion in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt border, near Kerem Shalom in southern Israel, July 1, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
July 16, 2017, 7:24 pm
Egypt says nine militants killed in Sinai
Security forces destroy 15 vehicles transporting weapons, ammunition and contraband into country from Libya
By AFP
This undated image made from a video released by Islamic State militants on April 19, 2015, appears to show the killing of a group of captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. (Militant video via AP)
August 18, 2015, 11:00 pm
Backed by Egypt, Libya urges Arab League to up funding for IS fight
Egypt criticizes international ‘double standards’ in confining military action against jihadists to Iraq, Syria
By AP
In this image provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, meets with CIA director John Brennan, center, and the director of Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate Khaled Fawzy in Cairo, Sunday, April 19, 2015. (Egyptian Presidency via AP)
April 19, 2015, 11:36 pm
Amid tensions, CIA chief pays surprise visit to Egypt
US-Egypt relations have been strained since President Sissi’s 2013 overthrow of elected president Mohammed Morsi
By AP, AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of a military operation by Egyptian security forced near the border with southern Gaza Strip on November 2, 2014. (AFP/Said Khatib)
March 7, 2015, 7:57 am
Egypt kills at least 25 militants in Sinai, officials say
Air raids in northern Sinai take out Islamic State-affiliated jihadists amid ongoing fight against insurgency, security sources claim
By ToI Staff
A picture taken from the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Egyptian soldier manning a watch tower on the Egyptian side, on October 26, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
March 5, 2015, 5:58 pm
As Egypt pulls back from Sinai, threat to Israel said to rise
Amid shift of Egyptian forces to Libyan front to combat Islamic State, Israeli officials fear terror groups will retake Gaza border
By ToI Staff
A relative of one of the Egyptian Coptic Christians purportedly murdered by Islamic State (IS) group militants in Libya reacts after hearing the news on February 16, 2015 in the village of Al-Awar in Egypt's southern province of Minya. (photo credit: AFP photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
February 17, 2015, 7:27 pm
35 Egyptians kidnapped in Libya after anti-IS strikes: report
Egypt’s president calls for UN-backed intervention in Libya; UN official calls Islamic State slaying of Christians a ‘vile crime’
By ToI Staff and AFP
File: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, speaks in front of the state-run TV ahead of a military funeral for 30 troops killed in an assault in the Sinai Peninsula, as he stands with army commanders in Cairo, Egypt, October 25, 2014 (AP/MENA)
November 22, 2014, 9:30 am
Egypt’s Sissi to make first European trip
President will visit France and Italy next week to discuss economic ties and fight against Libyan militants
By Samer al-Atrush
An Islamist fighter from the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition flashes the V sign for victory at the entrance of Tripoli international airport on August 24, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/MAHMUD TURKIA)
October 15, 2014, 7:29 pm
Egypt warplanes bomb Libyan militias
Officials say aircraft part of Egyptian-led operation that involves Libyan ground troops
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
The site of an attack in which 22 Egyptian border guards where killed in al-Wadi al-Gadid, July 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)
July 24, 2014, 8:30 pm
Cairo: Foreign intelligence behind border attack
Machine gun and rocket assault Saturday left 22 Egyptian soldiers dead at checkpoint near Libyan frontier
By AFP
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