Two militants were killed on Friday as they attempted to attack a security checkpoint in South Sinai's Ayon Moussa district, the ministry of interior said in a statement.
The deceased perpetrators-one of whom had an explosive belt-attempted in the (...)
The Egyptian police killed 11 militants in a terrorist hideout in Al-Arish, according to the ministry of interior.
This came after the ministry had received information from the National Security Agency on the presence of a number of militants in (...)
Egyptian security forces have killed 11 suspected terrorists in a shootout in the border North Sinai region, the interior ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The suspects were members of a terrorist cell in the provincial capital of El-Arish (...)
Egypt's Ministry of the Interior said in a statement on Thursday that police forces have killed six terrorists from the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group Hasm in Qalioubiya governorate, north of Cairo.
The terrorists were killed in a shootout with (...)
A 15-year-old suicide bomber struck a public market in Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai on Tuesday killing four policemen — a major, a police sergeant and two police conscripts — according to an official Interior Ministry statement. The bomb also killed (...)
The Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) has signed a contract with Kader Factory to establish a mobile wastewater treatment plant, with a capacity of 2,000 cubic metre per day, to be installed in the industrial area of Abu Khalifa.
Mohamed Baraya, the (...)
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Tuesday the Cairo Criminal Court's previous ruling to add 154 defendants to the terrorist list.
They defendants were accused of forming a group in violation of the law, planning to train militant groups in order (...)
The East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG) aims to start transmitting 150m cubic feet of gas per day (scf/day) from the fields of Delek and Noble in the Mediterranean to the Egyptian liquefaction factories by June after finishing the inspection of the (...)
The world is grieving after last Friday's attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The terrorist gunned down 50 worshippers, women and children included, as 50 others were injured. It was an unprecedented but premeditated atrocity that (...)
The fall of 15 military personnel during an attack on a security checkpoint in North Sinai cast light anew on the genuine threat that terrorism poses to Egypt and the world.
Mohamed Amin noted that the wheel of life did not stop in Egypt. The (...)
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Monday the Cairo Criminal Court's previous ruling to add 241 defendants to the terrorist list.
They were accused of forming a group in violation of the law, planning to kill police and army personnel, and (...)
A total of 16 militants were killed in North Sinai governorate on Tuesday morning during two raids by Egypt's security forces, according to the ministry of interior.
This came after the National Security Apparatus identified two terrorist hideouts, (...)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi held a meeting on Sunday night with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
The meeting came a day after the Arish attack that targeted a security (...)
Egyptian writers followed several topics in Sunday newspaper issues, including the Saturday terrorist attack in Al-Arish which killed and injured 15 military personnel, according to the military. Seven militants were also killed in the clash, the (...)
Seven suspected terrorists were killed in a fire exchange with security forces in Al-Arish, North of Sinai, according to an interior ministry statement.
The security forces launched a raid on a terrorist hideout in a remote area in Al-Arish, the (...)
The Cairo Military Court referred on Monday eight of the defendants in the case known as "the Assassination Attempt of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and the Saudi former crown prince Mohammed bin Nayef" to the Grand Mufti of Egypt for the (...)
An Egyptian military court has issued preliminary death sentences for eight people convicted of attempting to assassinate President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Saudi Arabia's former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in 2014.
The court has referred the (...)
Reaching out to Germany
PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received in Cairo on Sunday German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier to discuss ways of enhancing bilateral economic relations. Presidency Spokesman Bassam Radi (...)
North Sinai has been a theatre of battles between the Egyptian security forces and the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated militants in recent years, who were blamed for killing hundreds of police and military officers, Christians, and even Muslims.
A (...)
Five alleged extremists were killed on Wednesday in a gunfight with the security forces in a remote area close to Al-Arish city in North Sinai governorate, according to a statement from the ministry of interior.
The statement said that the five men (...)
Vicat Egypt, a subsidiary of France's Vicat Group, a French company manufacturing cement, aggregates, and ready-mix concrete in four continents, said that the company plans to inject new direct investments up to €30m in the Sinai Cement Company to (...)
Six militants were killed in a shoot-out with security forces during a raid on a terrorist camp in a desert area on the Assiut-Sohag desert road, according to a Saturday statement by the Ministry of Interior.
This came after the police received (...)
A number of 40 alleged militants were killed in a raid in three hideouts in Egypt's Giza and North Sinai governorates, according to Egypt's Ministry of Interior (MOI) announcement statement on Saturday.
14 were killed in the first hideout located at (...)
Egypt's Interior Ministry announced on Saturday that it had killed 40 terrorists in a raid on three hideouts in Egypt's Giza and North Sinai governorate, a statement by the interior ministry read.
The ministry highlighted that the raid was carried (...)
Fourteen alleged militants were killed in a fire exchange on Sunday with the Egyptian security forces in Arish, North Sinai, according to a statement from the ministry of interior.
"Information by the National Security Apparatus unveiled that a (...)
