Category: Egypt

  • Attack on Sinai checkpoint kills 11 Egyptian troops

    Attack on Sinai checkpoint kills 11 Egyptian troops

    Egypt’s military said Saturday that at least 11 troops, including an officer, were been killed in a militant attack in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula. The military said the militants attacked a water pumping station on Saturday, east of the Suez Canal. The statement said security forces clashed with the attacking militants. It says […]

  • Seven Sinai militants killed after air strike in Egypt

    On Thursday the Egyptian army said it killed seven militants in an air strike in the Sinai peninsula less than a week after jihadists downed a military helicopter in the restive region. The army said that the air strike targeted four houses of treacherous extremists linked to the muslim brotherhood group south of the north […]