Sinai terrorism

The Iran-backed Houthis continue to threaten Israel - analysis

The Houthi official slogan is “death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews” and, in their latest attempt to carry out their slogan, they hit Egypt with a missile.

 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) fires a Standard Missile (SM) 2 to defeat a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19, 2023.
THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

At least four killed in clash in Egypt's Sinai

 Members of the South Yamas special forces counter-terrorist unit seen during a military operation on the southern Israeli border with Egypt on July 12, 2022.

The ‘79 Israel-Egypt peace treaty and Sinai border security - explainer

THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

Egypt sees progress in ‘freeing Sinai’ from terror threats


Russia confirms that explosive downed plane over Sinai

Traces of explosives were found on fragments of the plane and on passengers' belongings.

Egypt's Prime Minister Sherif Ismail (4rth R) at the remines of a plane crash at the desert in central Sinai near El Arish city north of Egypt, October 31, 2015

Analysis: Cause of Sinai plane crash unknown, but Israel already prepared

The Shin Bet and IDF have prepared for possibility that ISIS-linked terrorists could target planes over Israeli airports near Egyptian border.

Russian airliner at its crash site at the Hassana area in Arish city, north Egypt

Hillel Russia mourns staffer killed in Sinai airplane crash

“Anya, you were incredibly talented, swift, fearless, sincere, kind and bright. You were a truly extraordinary person.”

Relatives of victims of Metrojet's Airbus A-321 plane with registration number EI-ETJ that crashed in Egypt, mourn at Crowne Plaza hotel near Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, October 31, 2015

Powerful militant group in Gaza allegedly pledges allegiance to ISIS

A communiqué in the name of Jaish al-Islam circulating on social media claims the group is an integral part of Islamic State in the Sinai.

Jaish al-Islam fighter

Attacks continue throughout Egypt as regime struggles with anti-terror strategy

Israeli expert to ‘Post’: On one hand President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government has been able to produce a kind of stability, but on the other, it has violated peoples’ rights.

Abdul Fattah Sisi

WATCH: New video shows ISIS in Sinai likely has advanced Russian weapons

The new 37-minute long video shows ISIS’s Wilayat Sinai has advanced weapons and training; the group says it hopes to use the Sinai as “an opening to fight a war against the Jews.”

ISIS branch in Sinai reveals group's new weaponry‏

Report: Egypt detains Hamas official at Cairo airport

Hassan Asseify, the deputy religious affairs minister in Hamas-ruled Gaza, was stopped on his way back from Saudi Arabia.

A Gaza woman waits at Rafah for a travel permit to cross into Egypt, June 14.

ISIS affiliate in Egypt claims to behead Croatian hostage in Sinai

Sinai Province terror group publishes photo purporting to show beheaded hostage.

Croatian hostage in Sinai

Sinai branch of Islamic State threatens to execute Croatian hostage in 48 hours

In the video, titled "A Message to the Egyptian Government" and which was posted on online forums, a man, identified as Tomislav Salopek, is seen kneeling and wearing a short-sleeved orange jumpsuit.

Islamic State-affiliated Sinai Province fighters in the Sinai Peninsula

Analysis: Egypt is losing its war against ISIS in Sinai

Wednesday's deadly attacks in Sinai raise difficult questions about the Egyptian army's operational and intel capabilities, but Sisi's resolve is unlikely to weaken.

Alleged picture of today's Sinai attacks surfaces on social media