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Travelers walk with their luggage in Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, November 28, 2021. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
March 20, 2023, 2:36 pm
Israel warns Passover travelers of Iranian plots to harm them abroad
Gulf countries, Turkey, Sinai represent heightened risk as Jewish holiday coincides with Muslim holy month of Ramadan, says National Security Council
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: In this August 6, 2012 file photo, Egyptian border guards patrol near the border with Israel in Rafah, Egypt. (AP/Ahmed Gomaa, File)
July 31, 2021, 8:22 pm
5 Egyptian troops killed in Islamic State attack in northern Sinai
Jihadists ambush a military checkpoint in the town of Sheikh Zuweid; sources say 3 attackers killed by security forces
By Agencies
Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
December 19, 2020, 5:14 am
Pair of bombs kills 3 Egyptian security members in Sinai
Explosives at checkpoints wound 10 in area home to Islamic State-led insurgency
By ASHRAF SWEILAM
Egyptian army soldiers stand guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, July 5, 2013. (AP/Hatem Moussa)
February 11, 2020, 8:29 pm
Egyptian forces kill 17 jihadists in north Sinai
Police raid hideout of ‘terrorist elements’ in provincial capital of El-Arish, find weapons and explosives, officials say
By AFP
Illustrative: An Islamic State affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula holds Egyptian Coptic Christians hostage. (Screen capture/YouTube)
November 2, 2019, 9:43 pm
Islamic State says jihadists in Sinai support new leader
Announcements offer first signs of support from terror group’s global affiliates in Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s successor Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi Al-Qurayshi
By Agencies
Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)
October 12, 2019, 11:49 pm
Egyptian officials say 9 killed in explosion in north Sinai
Blast in Bir al-Abd also wounds six; not immediately clear who was behind shelling as Cairo battles IS insurgency in area
By AP
Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
January 17, 2019, 4:09 pm
Terrorists kidnap Christian man in Sinai
Police say they pursued the kidnappers after the incident, killing one and wounding two, but could not free the hostage
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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)
October 14, 2018, 5:32 pm
Egypt says commercial truck traffic resumes with Israel through Sinai
Years-long jihadist insurgency in the peninsula severed trading there with Jewish state
By ToI Staff and AP
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
Illustrative: Egyptian policemen driving on a road leading to the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, July 26, 2018. (AFP/Khaled DESOUKI)
August 20, 2018, 3:15 pm
Egyptian army captain killed in northern Sinai roadside blast
Medics say officer was hit by improvised bomb, as military wages campaign against jihadists
By AFP
Illustrative: Egyptian army conscripts stand guard outside the Suez Canal University hospital in the eastern port city of Ismailia on November 25, 2017, where the victims of a bomb and gun assault on the North Sinai Rawda mosque a day earlier. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
March 4, 2018, 4:19 pm
4 soldiers, 10 jihadis killed in Egypt Sinai campaign
Latest deaths raise military casualties to 16 since start of sweeping operation against Islamic State last month
By AFP
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, attends the inauguration of the East Suez Canal Counter-Terrorism command, in Sinai, Egypt on February 25, 2018. (MENA via AP)
March 1, 2018, 1:38 am
Egyptian army in Sinai Peninsula doubles in a year, with Israel’s blessing
Eighty-eight Egyptian battalions with 42,000 soldiers fighting Islamic State, up from 41 battalions and 25,000 men a year ago
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Egyptian army conscripts stand guard outside the Suez Canal University hospital in the eastern port city of Ismailia on November 25, 2017, where the victims of a bomb and gun assault on the North Sinai Rawda mosque a day earlier. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)
February 9, 2018, 11:03 am
Egyptian army announces major operation in Sinai, Nile Delta
Military vows to ‘clean up terrorist hotbeds’ in bid to tamp down on jihadist forces
By AFP
Illustrative: IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
January 9, 2018, 1:55 pm
IDF forces conduct manhunt for suspected Palestinian shooters near Nablus
Israeli father of five, a resident of the Gilad Farm outpost in the northern West Bank, reportedly shot from passing car on Route 60
By ToI Staff
The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, November 25, 2017.(AFP)
November 28, 2017, 1:46 pm
Deadly mosque attack puts Egypt’s Sinai strategy in spotlight
After three bloody years battling an Islamist insurgency in the peninsula, Egypt’s army still faces deadly mass attacks by Islamic State terrorists
By Aziz El Massassi
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