AL-ARISH: Armed tribesmen freed two Brazilian women and an Egyptian police officer who was with them late Sunday, hours after abducting them in the Sinai desert, a security official said.
The head of security in Egypt's south Sinai, Mahmoud (...)
AL-ARISH: Egypt's security chief for the Sinai peninsula says armed tribesmen have kidnapped three Korean tourists and their Egyptian guide.
Maj. Gen. Mohamed Nagib says the tribesmen stopped a tourist bus and took the four, leaving a number of (...)
EL-ARISH, Egypt — A security official says Egyptian police have shot dead an African migrant and wounded three others near the border with Israel.
The security official says the four men, all in their 20s, were trying to illegally enter Israel (...)
EL-ARISH: A security official says Egyptian police have shot dead an African migrant and wounded three others near the border with Israel.
The security official says the four men, all in their 20s, were trying to illegally enter Israel from (...)
EL-ARISH, Egypt — An Egyptian security official says two policemen were wounded when members of a militant group opened fire at the police in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
The official says the police on Monday went to the home of a militant (...)
EL-ARISH: A senior Egyptian security official says police have arrested the leader of Al-Qaeda-inspired group in the Sinai peninsula that was behind attacks on police and on a gas pipeline that transports fuel to Israel and Jordan.
The official (...)
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Security officials say an explosion has again hit a gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighboring Israel and Jordan.
The officials say the explosion early on Thursday near the town of el-Arish (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's military has began an operation to close a network of smuggling tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border following tension with Israel, security officials said Saturday.
Hundreds of tunnels snake under the 14-kilometer (9-mile) border, (...)
RAFAH, Egypt — Egyptian officials say border guards have shot and killed two Sudanese men who were trying to infiltrate into Israel.
Security officials said the guards discovered a group of Africans near the border on Wednesday and ordered them (...)
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — A hospital official says Egypt's ex-first lady Suzanne Mubarak is feeling better following treatment for chest pains she suffered after being told she would be detained by the government for further questioning on (...)
AL-ARISH: Police say a bus carrying Egyptian pilgrims to Mecca and a van collided head-on, killing 12 people and injuring three others.
A police officer said the accident occurred Thursday on a single-lane road in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
The (...)
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Egyptian Bedouins have blocked roads and set car tires on fire, demanding authorities release jailed tribesmen and revoke prison sentences leveled in absentia against some of their kin.
Tuesday's protest in the (...)
demanding authorities release jailed tribesmen and revoke prison sentences leveled in absentia against some of their kin.
Tuesday's protest in the Sinai Peninsula forced several tourist busses to stop along two roads leading to Sharm El-Sheikh on (...)
EL-ARISH, Egypt: An explosion rocked a natural gas terminal near Egypt's border with Israel early on Wednesday, sending flames shooting into the air and forcing the shutdown of the country's export pipeline, said security officials.
It was the (...)
EL-ARISH: Gunmen have targeted a pipeline carrying natural gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan for the second time in under two months.
A security official said six individuals overpowered a lone guard early Sunday morning at a gas terminal in (...)
EL-ARISH: Assailants detonated a bomb Saturday in an empty church in a small town in northern Egypt, causing little damage and no injuries, security officials said.
Smoke billowed from the windows of the church and the assailants also snatched a (...)
EL-ARISH: Egyptian security officials say border police have killed an Eritrean woman trying to sneak across the border into Israel.
Officials say the 20-year-old woman did not heed warnings from Egyptian border guards before they shot her in the (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian security officials say the government is building several 100-foot (30-meter) observation towers to improve security along the border with the Gaza Strip, stopping infiltration and sniper attacks.
The officials said Saturday the (...)
RAFAH: Egyptian police say a dispute between Moldovans and Bedouin traffickers demanding more money to take them to Israel has left one Bedouin dead.
Security officials say the Moldovans told police Saturday the Bedouins doubled the $1,000 amount (...)
RAFAH: Egyptian border guards fatally shot an African migrant as he tried to cross the border into Israel, an Egyptian official said Thursday.
He said the 28-year-old Eritrean man died from a gunshot to the chest on Wednesday night.
Hundreds (...)
EL-ARISH: An Egyptian security official says an African migrant bled to death after being shot in the leg by border guards as he tried to cross into Israel.
The official says the shooting occurred early Wednesday near the Rafah crossing. He says (...)
AL-ARISH: Egyptian security officials say Bedouin tribesmen attacked a humanitarian convoy bound for Gaza after a shootout with police in the Sinai Peninsula.
The officials say the police went to a Bedouin village searching for a fugitive but (...)
EL-ARISH: A sandstorm sweeping across parts of Egypt has forced the closure of ports at the mouth of the Suez Canal and a major desert highway through the Sinai Peninsula.
The dust reduced visibility, and winds whipped up 3.5-meter (11-foot) (...)
RAFAH: An Egyptian security official says border guards have shot and wounded five African migrants and arrested 15 others trying to cross illegally into Israel.
The official said the guards first fired warning shots Saturday to stop the migrants (...)
AL-ARISH: A luxury cruise liner carrying nearly 1,500 passengers slammed into the pier as it docked at an Egyptian Red Sea resort in fierce winds, leaving three crew members dead, officials said.
The ship s owner, Costa Crociera, said the vessel (...)