Posts Tagged: ISIS Egypt
Egypt to Extend State of Emergency for Three Months
Egypt's parliament approved on Sunday the extension of a nationwide state of emergency for three months from July 14. Egypt imposed the emergency in 2017 after...
How Is Egypt’s ‘Operation Sinai 2018’ Succeeding Against Islamic State?
JNS.org - The Egyptian army launched a large-scale counter-terrorism operation on February 9, code-named “Sinai 2018,” against the self-styled Sinai province of Islamic State. Previously known as...
Egypt Says Three Soldiers Killed in Campaign Against Sinai Militants
Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a 10-day-old campaign against Islamist militants focused on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt's military said on Monday. It was the...
US Secretary of State Says Washington Backs Egypt in Fight Against Terrorism
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that the United States supports Egypt's fight against Islamic State but reiterated that it advocated free...
Egypt Launches Major Assault on Militants Ahead of Election
Egypt began a major assault against militants on Friday focused on the Sinai peninsula, where Islamic State attacks have killed soldiers, police and civilians, aiming...
ISIS Militants Kill 18, Wound 7 in Attack on Police Convoy in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
Islamic State militants ambushed a police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Monday, killing 18 police officers and wounding seven others in one of the...
Egyptian Christians Displaced Amid Islamic State Terror, Allege Government Neglect
JNS.org - Amid growing concern regarding the Islamic State terror group’s increased targeting of Christians in Egypt, displaced Coptic Christians in the country’s northern Sinai claim...
Former Obama Administration Official on Killing of Egypt’s Christians by ISIS: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’
JNS.org - A former Obama administration Department of Homeland Security official said this past weekend of the Islamic State terror group's mass murder of Egyptian Coptic...
Leader of Egyptian ISIS Affiliate Vows to Increase Attacks on Christians
JNS.org - A leader of the Islamic State terror group’s affiliate in Sinai issued a warning expressing the intent to launch new attacks on Christians...
ISIS Pushes to Establish Religious Authority in Egypt’s North Sinai
One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt’s North Sinai when he came upon a group...
How an Islamic State Hotbed Grew on Israel’s Egyptian Border
JNS.org - Despite repeated warnings from Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau to stay away from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a hardcore group of resolute Israeli tourists planned to go...
Israelis Warned of Increased Terror Threat Before Passover Holiday Travel
JNS.org - Ahead of the Passover holiday, Israel has issued travel advisories cautioning Israelis to avoid vacationing in the Egyptian Sinai, Turkey and Jordan. The Egyptian...
Jews, Christians and Another Jihadi Pogrom in Egypt
From the lips of a little child – an 8-year-old girl from El Arish, Egypt – comes a heartbreaking message. Her words speak volumes about...
ISIS Abducts, Kills Egyptian Government ‘Collaborators’ in Sinai
In the past three days, Islamic State militants in Egypt's volatile northern Sinai region abducted four men accused of collaborating with the government, three of...
