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Illustrative: Egyptian security forces in the Sinai. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny /AFP)

August 26th, 2018 - 12:36 GMT

Egypt Forces Repel Attack on North Sinai Checkpoint

Police forces on Saturday morning engaged with a terrorist group who tried to attack a security checkpoint on the coastal road of al-Arish, North Sinai, successfully killing four of them.

Pope Francis leads the Palm Sunday mass, on April 9, 2017 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

April 10th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

Pope Francis’ planned visit to Egypt possibly canceled after church bombings

Egypt's Coptic Christians have recently come under attack by Daesh in the Sinai peninsula. (AFP/File)

March 12th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Displaced Coptic families to receive apartments in Egypt’s Ismailia

Sinai has become increasingly volatile following the overthrow of dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011, and the military coup against President Mohamad Morsi in 2013. (AFP/File)

March 5th, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Mine explosion in Sinai kills 2, injuring further 15

Egyptian security forces inspect the scene of a bomb explosion at the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on December 11, 2016. (AFP/Kaheld Desouki)

February 21st, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Daesh publishes video of man it claims was Egypt Coptic church bomber

Militancy inside Egypt has seen a significant rise since the military ouster of former president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013, following mass protests against his rule.

February 7th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Egyptian army clashes with militants in Sinai, leaving 14 dead

Due to the rise in militancy in the Sinai Peninsula, the region has been under a state of emergency since late 2014. (File photo)

January 25th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Israel advises citizens to leave volatile Sinai

Egyptian military and police forces have been the target of ongoing attacks, which have increased since Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi took power from Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. (AFP/File)

January 24th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Attack on military vehicle in central Sinai kills five Egyptian soldiers

Egyptian forces then deployed in the area as technical teams started to rebuild the towers, which feed a power line that supplies electricity to Jordan. (AFP/File)

January 22nd, 2017 - 01:00 GMT

Daesh militants destroy transmission towers in Sinai, Egypt

A convoy of Egyptian armoured vehicles heads along a road in El-Arish. (AFP/File)

October 30th, 2016 - 06:00 GMT

Two Egyptian soldiers killed in northern Sinai by Daesh affiliated extremist group

Egyptian officials inspect the wreckage of a car bomb that exploded in a Cairo suburb after Egypt's deputy prosecutor general drove by late on September 29, 2016, wounding a passerby. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

October 29th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

IED explosion in Cairo kills one civilian

An Egyptian policeman inspects the wreckage after a car bomb blast kills three policemen in al-Tur, in the Sinai peninsula, on October 7, 2013. (AFP Photo/Mohamed el-Shahed)

October 2nd, 2016 - 12:00 GMT

Five Egyptian soldiers killed in northern Sinai

Egyptian security forces on patrol in the restive Sinai Peninsula. (AFP/File)

September 7th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Egypt: Clashes in Sinai kill 11 militants, injure five others