ARISH, Egypt: Director of North Sinai Security Saleh El Masry said an officer was martyred and another injured this morning during an operation to arrest leaders of the Takfir wal-Hijra organization in Arish.
CSF officer Amr Ghadban martyred and (...)
Security forces captured a member of Takfiri group in Sinai, a group attributed to bombing the natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan.
The captured member is called Walid, 43, and lives in Arish. Walid was arrested on his way back from Nweiba (...)
The Egyptian Border Patrol stopped an attempt to smuggle five Pharaonic statutes that were in the possession of an Egyptian citizen.
The border patrol in the Red Sea region captured an Egyptian citizen Mohamed from the city of Abu Ramad. He was (...)
SINAI, Egypt: Hundreds of workers of the Nasr Navigation Company in North Sinai Governorate blocked the Qantara Arish highway Saturday to protest an armed attack on the company.
Workers sa
id armed men in five cars attacked the headquarters and (...)
RAFAH, Egypt: Armed forces in North Sinai Governorate seized two trucks carrying 18,000 liters (4,755 gallons) of gasoline on its way to be smuggled to Gaza.
A source at the Directory of Supply said that the army seized two trucks carrying 17,000 (...)
Palestinian newspaper Local Palestine claimed Egypt destroyed 32 tunnels from the extended tunnels under the borderline between the Gaza strip and Egyptian land at the Egyptian borders during the past two weeks.
A source in the Palestine (...)
NORTH SINAI, Egypt: Armed men opened fire at a security services' ambush position east in Abu Tawlea, east of Arish, the capital of the North Sinai Governorate, before escaping Monday morning, according to security sources.
A security source said (...)
RAFAH: A Palestinian rocket fell in El-Awabda region in El-Masora in Rafah, South West of Rafah border crossing. The rocket was meant to target the Israeli Karam Abu Salem crossing, according to eyewitnesses and sources.
The sources said the (...)
ARISH, Egypt: Today's organized army and police raids on extremists in el-Arish, Sinai resulted in ten arrests, reported Director of Security of North Sinai Maj. Gen. Saleh el-Masry.
The extremists are charged in connection with the clashes that (...)
A group of six masked men driving four-wheeled vehicle without license plates, ambushed Arish public hospital yesterday.
They stole a Palestinian's corpse of a young man called Alaa Mohamed el-Masry (18), who was killed during the Arish incidents (...)
RAFAH: A total number of 1,595 transients Palestinians and foreigners crossed Rafah border crossing both directions on Sunday. A total number of 580 passengers left from the Gaza Strip, and 1,015 passengers into the Gaza Strip, according to a source (...)