Cairo - Egypt's foreign ministry has described the crash of a Russian-operated Airbus out of Sharm el-Sheikh as having resulted from a deliberate attack. Investigators in Egypt have yet to give the results of their inquiry into the loss of the MetroJet A321 over Sinai on 31 October 2015. But the ministry, in a statement underlining the need for an international counter-terrorism strategy, referred to "terrorist operations" which have resulted in "hundreds" of fatalities "such as the Russian aircraft crash".