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Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, president of Egypt, addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York city.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
October 28, 2017, 9:08 pm
Egypt’s Sissi names new armed forces chief of staff
No reasons given for change of top soldier, seen as a major shift in the military establishment
By AFP
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
November 25, 2016, 4:38 am
8 soldiers killed in car bombing in Egypt’s Sinai
Three jihadists die in assault; as insurgency grinds on, Cairo insists it will ‘eradicate’ local IS affiliate
By Haitham el-Tabei
President Reuven Rivlin embraces Bassem Abu Amar, father of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, 15, who was shot and killed by an Egyptian soldier on October 25, 2016. Rivlin visited the family at their home in Lakiya in southern Israel on October 27. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
October 27, 2016, 8:33 pm
President visits family of teen killed on Egypt border
Rivlin promises help to family of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, 15, slain Tuesday by an Egyptian soldier
By ToI Staff
Egyptian army soldiers patrol the Cairo-Ismailia desert road in Egypt, August 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
October 14, 2016, 3:00 pm
Attack kills 12 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai
At least eight others injured in assault on checkpoint east of the Suez Canal
By Agencies
28-year-old Gazan Ishaq Hassan crosses the border from Gaza into Egypt moments before being gunned down by Egyptian border guards. (Screen capture/Al Jazeera)
December 28, 2015, 2:25 am
Egyptian border guards shoot and kill naked Gazan man
Family says Ishaq Hassan, 28, was desperately trying to obtain medical care in Egypt for an old injury
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An Egyptian security control tower near the Egypt-Gaza border at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
November 23, 2015, 3:21 pm
Egypt police kill six Sudanese migrants at Israel border
Officials say the Africans were shot during a gun battle between security forces and smugglers
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An Egyptian military officer watches at a post in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt border on Wednesday, July 1, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 15, 2015, 3:02 pm
Egypt police kill 15 Sudanese migrants at Israel border
Police say they opened fire on Africans after they ran toward fence ignoring warning shots
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: An Egyptian military officer keeps watch at a post in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt border, in the village of Kerem Shalom in southern Israel, July 1, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 6, 2015, 9:43 am
Sudanese migrant killed by Egypt on Sinai border
Three others seriously injured when Egyptian troops open fire on group trying to cross into Israel
By ToI Staff
October 15, 2015, 2:22 am
Bomb in northern Sinai kills civilian, soldier
Six policemen wounded as roadside explosives detonated near el-Arish
By AP
Smoke rises in Egypt's northern Sinai, as seen from the border of the Gaza Strip, amid fierce clashes between government forces and Islamic State-affiliated gunmen on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 14, 2015, 3:16 am
Egypt’s ‘largest-ever’ operation in Sinai – again
Why Cairo appears to be taking the Islamist threat from the peninsula more seriously than before
By Avi Issacharoff
Egyptian policemen (R) stand next to a damaged car in front of a damaged national security building after a bomb blast in northern Cairo's district of Shubra on August 20, 2015. (AFP / KHALED DESOUKI)
August 24, 2015, 2:34 pm
Officials: 2 Egyptian policemen killed, 24 wounded in bus bomb
Attack occurs 240 kilometers north of Cairo as officers travel to work on a civilian bus; follows string of similar attacks by jihadist groups
By AFP
In this picture provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, members of the military parade at the Air Defense Academy in Alexandria, Egypt. (Mohammed Samaha/ Egyptian Presidency via AP)
July 23, 2015, 1:07 am
Top Egypt jihadist urges holy war against Sissi
Cairo authorities see ex-military officers in key roles in widening Islamist insurgency
By Sarah El Deeb
In this picture taken Tuesday, June 30, 2015, provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, speaks at the funeral for Hisham Barakat in Cairo. (Egyptian Presidency via AP)
July 2, 2015, 1:11 am
Muslim Brotherhood calls for ‘rebellion’ against Sissi
Threatened escalation follows deaths of 9 MB leaders after Egypt rocked by Cairo bombing and by Sinai jihadist attacks that killed dozens
By Brian Rohan and ASHRAF SWEILLAM
In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)
April 19, 2015, 5:42 am
Egypt’s Morsi faces possible death penalty
Execution of country’s first freely elected leader would mark ‘escalation’ by military-backed Sissi government, says expert
By Tony Gamal-Gabriel
Illustrative photo of a jihadist fighter in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (screen capture: YouTube)
April 11, 2015, 12:20 pm
Sinai Jihadists execute Egyptian soldier in video
Group loyal to Islamic State also seen beheading second unidentified individual in new clip
By AFP
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