The name of Sinai's Mount Halal returned to the media this week amid the armed forces' reports about strikes against militant groups following last week's attack on a military checkpoint that killed 16 security officers and injured seven.
Amid (...)
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces on Wednesday approved the retrial of the defendants in the bombings in of Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh, Thursday.
The Supreme State Security Court of Ismailia had on 30 November 2006 sentenced three defendants to (...)
The Central Israeli Court issued a ruling on Wednesday for the release of three children who have been imprisoned in Israel for three months on allegations of having infiltrated the country. The Israeli prosecution decided not to appeal the case, (...)
Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint on Sunday, in the Tawil district, 15 km north of the city of Arish in Sinai. They exchanged fire with police for an hour and a half, resultilng the wounding of two people.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers (...)
Seven security checkpoints were attacked on Friday in Sinai by armed groups, security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The security sources said the gunmen were probably affiliated with the group that had previously attacked the North Sinai town of (...)
Security forces in North Sinai have made a number of arrests of men allegedly involved in attacks on the the natural gas pipeline between Egypt and Israel.
The first arrests were made on Monday after a gunfight in which one person was killed, while (...)
The Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements have welcomed the decision of the Egyptian authorities to permanently open the Rafah border crossing.
As of Sunday, the crossing will by open from 9 am to 5 pm every day except Fridays.
Women of all ages, as (...)
The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has announced that it is making preparations for a test pumping of gas to Jordan and Israel to take place in the next few hours. The prepaprations included raising gas pressure inside the pipline that (...)
A group of Bedouins are preparing for a protest near al-Gorah airport where multi-national peace keeping forces are situated, sources from the North Sinai governorate said.
Several members of a tribe in al-Mahdiya village located to the south of the (...)
An Egyptian policeman was shot dead on Monday by human smuggling gangs and drug dealers near the Egyptian-Israeli border, according to a security source.
Abdel Sattar Farrag, 23, a police officer, was killed following a violent encounter with (...)
The "Road to Hope" Humanitarian Aid Convoy is scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian coastal city of Arish on Tuesday.
According to project coordinator Mohamed al-Haddad, the convoy will provide the besieged coastal enclave with 30 ambulances and 95 (...)
Egyptian authorities have announced a decision to close the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip for the duration of the six-day Eid holidays beginning on 15 November.
They also announced a decision to close the crossing on (...)
The three main Bedouin tribes of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula--Al-Sawarka, Al-Romaylat and Al-Tarabin--declared their solidarity with seven Al-Tarabin tribesmen who were sentenced in absentia two days ago to life in prison.
Tribal leaders also warned (...)
Indiscriminate gunfire at a popular market in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid has left a ten-year-old boy dead and a man and women wounded. People at the scene caught one of the shooters and delivered him to police, but several assailants (...)
Egyptian border police injured two Sudanese nationals in a brief exchange of fire while the latter attempted to cross into Israel through Egypt's Rafah border terminal.
The two would-be migrants, whose weapons were seized by police, later told (...)
Eight trucks laden with humanitarian supplies belonging to the "Jerusalem" Libyan aid convoy entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt's Rafah border crossing.
Additional food supplies that still remain in the Egyptian coastal city of Al-Arish are (...)
A bus transporting 30 factory workers to their workplace in the Sinai Peninsula was hijacked by armed men on Tuesday.
The hijackers reportedly released passengers before stealing the bus.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the bus belonged to (...)
Bedouin fugitives in the Sinai Peninsula issued a press statement on Monday accusing state security apparatuses of treating them as if they were "collaborators with [Israeli intelligence service] Mossad."
The statement said that security forces "did (...)
Security forces increased their presence along the roads of the central Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an effort to prevent a conference from being held by wanted Bedouin fugitives.
Police set up numerous checkpoints along roads in the area to ensure (...)
North Sinai Bedouin tribes were outraged by remarks made by the province's governor, Mohamed Mourad Muwafi, which they viewed as accusing the Bedouins of aiming to establish a border state, treason, and serving Israel's interests.
Tribal chiefs (...)
Security authorities in the Governorate of North Sinai released 20 Bedouin detainees on Sunday, bringing the total number of detainees released by the government in recent weeks to 98.
Those released include political dissidents, Bedouin tribesmen (...)
Aid supplies from the Libyan ship "El-Amal" began arriving in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after the Israeli navy forced the Gaza-bound vessel to dock at the Egyptian port of El-Arish. The aid was transported into Gaza via the Rafah and Karam Abu Salem (...)
The Libyan humanitarian aid ship heading to the Gaza Strip has reached Arish seaport in Egypt on Thursday, after being forced to enter Egyptian waters by the Israeli navy.
The Egyptian Red Crescent started unloading the ship's 1517-ton cargo to send (...)
In 2007, Sinai activist Mosaad Abu Fajr was imprisoned for allegedly organizing a demonstration against a housing demolition in Salah Eddin, on Egypt's border with Gaza. A vocal promoter of Bedouin rights, Abu Fajr had also just founded the Wedna (...)
Israel announced it has forced the Libyan humanitarian aid ship heading to the Gaza Strip to enter Egyptian waters. The ship was followed by eight Israeli zodiacs to make sure it does not change course.
The cargo ship which set sail from Greece is (...)