Sinai terrorism

The Iran-backed Houthis continue to threaten Israel - analysis

The Houthi official slogan is “death to America, death to Israel, curse the Jews” and, in their latest attempt to carry out their slogan, they hit Egypt with a missile.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) fires a Standard Missile (SM) 2 to defeat a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the Red Sea, Oct. 19, 2023.
THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

At least four killed in clash in Egypt's Sinai

The four dead included a police colonel, officials said. Six people were also wounded.

|ByREUTERS
Members of the South Yamas special forces counter-terrorist unit seen during a military operation on the southern Israeli border with Egypt on July 12, 2022.

The ‘79 Israel-Egypt peace treaty and Sinai border security - explainer

As with all of Israel's borders, there is a delicate diplomatic balance at the Israel-Egypt border, which Israel has been hesitant to change.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

Egypt sees progress in ‘freeing Sinai’ from terror threats

The defeat has been accomplished through local reform, confronting extremist ideas in religious institutions and also shifting educational priorities.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Rocket fired into Israel from Sinai

MAY 23, 2017ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Rocket fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel. [File]

Islamic State leader in Egypt tells Muslims to avoid Christian gatherings

In April, two Islamic State suicide bombers killed at least 45 people at churches in the cities of Alexandria and Tanta, one of the bloodiest attacks the country has experienced in years.

MAY 5, 2017ByREUTERS
Saint Catherine's Monastery at the Sinai peninsula, Egypt

ISIS grip on Egypt's northern Sinai widens, seeks to impose Islamist rule

The Islamic State's widening geographical reach and shift in focus present a challenge for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

MAY 2, 2017ByREUTERS
An Egyptian army soldier looks on from his postion at a checkpoint in Al Arish city, the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula

L’Egypte à l’heure des choix

Tiraillé entre les intérêts économiques et géostratégiques de son pays, le président Sissi se livre à un véritable exercice d’équilibriste

APRIL 23, 2017ByZVI MAZEL
Poignée de mains entre le président égyptien et Donald Trump

Israel-Sinai border crossing re-opens, terror threat remains in place

Israelis currently vacationing in the Sinai were encouraged to return.

APRIL 21, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
An Egyptian soldier stands near the Egyptian national flag and the Israeli flag at the Taba crossing between Egypt and Israel

Travel warning issued for Sinai: Israelis advised to leave immediately

APRIL 9, 2017ByJPOST.COM STAFF
An Israeli flag (L) flutters next to an Egyptian one at the Nitzana crossing, along Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai desert

Ten Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai fighting

Security forces also killed 15 people and arrested seven others during a raid which targeted "highly dangerous terrorists" in the central Sinai area.

MARCH 23, 2017ByREUTERS
An Egyptian army soldier looks on from his postion at a checkpoint in Al Arish city, the troubled northern part of the Sinai peninsula

See you at Sinai

MARCH 23, 2017ByBEN FISHER
Coral reef and Sinai mountains at Taba Heights

ISIS attacks on Sinai Christians pose challenge to Sisi

Church in Ismailia becomes haven for displaced children.

MARCH 1, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
A NUN WEEPS inside Cairo’s St. Marks Coptic Cathedral yesterday, after terrorists killed at least 25 people and wounded 49 during Sunday mass

8 Egyptian police killed in north Sinai attack

The attack was launched with a car bomb, planted in a street cleaning car that the attackers had stolen a few days earlier, three security sources told Reuters.

JANUARY 9, 2017ByREUTERS
Islamic State-affiliated Sinai Province fighters in the Sinai Peninsula