Sinai Bedouins today surrounded the MFO headquarters in Sheikh Zuwaid, cut off access to the road to the airport and set tires alight for the second consecutive day today, demanding the release of children who are detained by security forces.
The (...)
Mohamed Saad, Director General of Agriculture in the governorate of North Sinai, was shot by unknown gunmen Wednesday morning as he got into a directorate car.
Saad's feet were injured, and he was transferred to Arish Hospital where he is (...)
Three Palestinians were arrested attempting to return to Gaza Strip near Bir al-Abed in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a security source.
The three had entered through tunnels connecting Gaza and Egypt. One had a forged Egyptian ID (...)
Security sources said clashes took place between two Bedouin tribes in Arish after an argument. Clashes are being fought with sticks and batons. The clashes occurred in front of Masaeed Park in Arish.
The clashes resulted in the injury of a young (...)
A group of bomb dismantling experts disarmed a bomb near a streetlight in the seaside town of El-Arish. It is anonymous as to who placed the bomb there.
A security source said the bomb was made of old bomb parts and a new detonator. It was placed (...)
ARISH, Egypt: The North Sinai chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Freedom and Justice Party issued a statement condemning the killings of Egyptian soldiers on the border with Israel.
Last Thursday Egyptian soldiers were killed by the (...)
“The Ouja border crossing and trading point between Egypt and Israel in Central Sinai has been closed by the Egyptian authorities for an indefinite period following recent events at the border,” said an Egyptian source today.
The closure of the (...)
The projectiles used in the attacks on Egyptian soldiers last night were of the expanding variety, meaning that death was intentional, reported the public prosecutor of Arish.
The Arish public prosecutors, under the supervision of Abdul Nasser El (...)
Egyptian security officials met with Bedouin elders in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday evening in preparation for an assault on extremist groups in the governorate.
Maj. Gen. Ahmed Gamal al-Din, assistant minister of interior for public security, (...)
The Rafah Border Crossing, the gateway between Gaza and Egypt, was closed today for the weekend but will reopen and resume its work on Saturday, according to a border source.
The crossing will be open to students, those with medical referrals, (...)
Governor of North Sinai Maj. Gen. Abdul Wahab Mabrouk today denied rumors about the existence of armed fundamentalist militias in northern Sinai.
“The Salafi Movement is a purely missionary movement and has no armed units,” said As'as Bey (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian security sources deny Israeli claims regarding the smuggling of large quantities of weapons into Gaza through tunnels between Egypt and Israel.
They denied this after a report was published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz about (...)
Shipping sources said today the U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier George Washington, accompanied by four U.S. warships, crossed the Suez Canal
The sources said the aircraft carrier has a carrying capacity of 97 thousand tons, is nuclear-powered, (...)
Prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a 6 million EGP (U.S. $1 million) deficit in the budget for a project of agricultural systems in the Sinai Peninsula, said the program's general supervisor, Said Shehata. The project, east of the Suez (...)
The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip will reopen today for Palestinian after a partial restoration of the gates closed the crossing yesterday, said a source at the Rafah crossing.
He said the total number of transients is (...)