Seven Egyptian soldiers were killed last Sunday night, in a mysterious explosion in an air defense base in North Sinai Governorate, east of the country, reported al-araby al-Jadeed. An Islamic State-linked insurgency has brewed for [ More … ]
A new report by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights reveals untold stories about children that were illegally recruited by authorities and tribes to fulfill dangerous tasks in North Sinai, Egypt. The report provides compelling [ More … ]
Egyptian authorities have arbitrarily detained women and girls related to suspected members of the ISIS affiliate in North Sinai, some for months or years, Human Rights Watch and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights said. [ More … ]
The Sinai Foundation for Human Rights says the Egyptian military is compromising children’s right to education with its campaign against militants in Sinai, reported the Guardian. According to the UK-based watchdog, the Egyptian forces have [ More … ]
The Egyptian cabinet has approved a decision put forward by Sisi to allocate 90,000 acres of state-owned land in the Rabaa and Bir Al-Abed areas of Sinai to the Army’s National Service Projects Organization (NSPO). [ More … ]
The Egyptian army published a statement with photos of slain insurgents and their allegedly confiscated weapons in Islamic State-affiliated region Egypt’s military reportedly killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate [ More … ]
The human rights organization DAWN has once again called on the Egyptian government to release Abdullah Boumediene who was forcibly disappeared from Sinai when he was just 12 years old. Abdullah has spent four years [ More … ]
The army spokesman says casualties include an officer but did not provide details on the number of those killed or wounded. Ten soldiers have been killed or wounded in a blast targeting an armoured vehicle [ More … ]
The dispute with Ethiopia over control of the Nile is emblematic of the Egyptian president’s short-sightedness, and it’s a consistent pattern. Yesterday in Washington, officials from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met to discuss the ongoing [ More … ]
Under Al-#Sisi’s 7-year war on terror in Sinai! 14 villages in Egypt’s Sinai have been “wiped off the map”!. “a 50-KM area from the border erased! “Army didn’t leave either animal, tree, bird or human! [ More … ]
Amid threats posed by the Islamic State in Sinai, Egypt’s minister of planning announced $316 million worth of investments in the Sinai Peninsula for fiscal year 2020, plans seen by observers as skeptical. The Al-Monitor [ More … ]
Abdel Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt issued a decree renewing the state of emergency in Egypt for 3 months starting Thursday, July 25, for the ninth time in a row since it was imposed in April [ More … ]
Seven Egyptian policemen were killed in an attack claimed by the IS-local affiliate group known as “Sinai Province” in restive North Sinai. Four gunmen were also killed in the attack on police near the Sinai [ More … ]
Egyptian Army says it also confiscated firearms and improvised explosive devices from fighters in the restive peninsula. Forty-seven fighters and five Egyptian soldiers were killed during Egypt’s ongoing military offensive in the restive Sinai Peninsula, [ More … ]
A new report released by Stratfor -an American geopolitical intelligence platform-highlight Egypt’s spendings in arms sales during Al-Sisi’s rule despite the north African country’s wrecked economy. The report reads that over the past few years,” Egypt has opened the [ More … ]
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