The Guardian Isis mortar kills at least 13 police at Egyptian checkpoint At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai peninsula when Islamic militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites for the attack and Egyptian state media later confirmed it. Ambulances were subjected to heavy gunfire as they attempted to reach the wounded, sources said. Eyewitnesses reported hearing a massive explosion and said the city's entrances and exits had been closed off by security forces. Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/19/at-least-13-policemen-killed-isis-fires-mortar-round-checkpoint-arish-egypt Al Arabiya US concern over Egypt's NGO investigation US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he was deeply concerned by the deterioration in the human rights situation in Egypt, including Egypt's decision to reopen an investigation of non-governmental organizations. In a statement released by the State Department, Kerry said the decision by the Egyptian government this week to investigate the NGOs, which were documenting human rights abuses, comes against a wider backdrop of arrests and intimidation of the political opposition, journalists, activists and others. Read more: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/03/19/Concern-over-Egypt-s-human-rights-groups-probes.html
