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Tag: Sinai
Egypt: Riyadh offers $1.5 Billion to Finance Projects in Sinai
Cairo announced Sunday it received $1.5 billion from Saudi Arabia earmarked for development projects in underprivileged Sinai. The Saudi kingdom has already donated Egypt several ... Read More
Egypt: Minor Arrested for Plotting to Overthrow Regime
Egyptian authorities charged on Thursday a 16-year old boy for plotting to overthrow the government. Omar al-Brashi, a first year high school student was arrested ... Read More
US-Egyptian cooperation should go beyond security, al-Sissi
Egyptian President Fatah al-Sissi Sunday urged the United States to expand its cooperation with Egypt beyond security and counter-terrorism. At a meeting with CIA boss ... Read More
Egypt: military trash 26 terrorists in North Sinai
Egyptian military sources Sunday indicated that the army killed 26 terrorists and arrested five suspects in military raid in a move to weed out IS-affiliated ... Read More
Egypt: HEC cancels news conference, IS in Sinai claims attack on hotel
Egyptian High Election Committee (HEC) Tuesday cancelled a news conference following the death of two judges killed in an attack perpetrated by IS in the ... Read More
Egypt: Plane heading to Egypt diverted upon bomb alert
A plane flying from Poland to Egypt was forced to land in Bulgaria after a bomb alert was made by a sixty year old passenger, ... Read More
Egypt: Russia suspends EgyptAir flights till further notice
Egypt’s national carrier, EgyptAir, has been informed that Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport will be closed to its aircrafts as of Saturday till further notice. The Russian Federal Air Transport ... Read More
Egypt: Militant attack kills nine family members
Unknown militants raided a house in the city of Arish Wednesday, killing nine family members including a three-year old child and severely wounding one person, ... Read More
Egypt: Investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat Released
Egyptian investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat was released this Tuesday by the military following his arrest for “publishing false news”. The 37-year-old’s release was confirmed by ... Read More
Egypt-Russia: Russian officials dismiss IS claims it downed the Russian plane
A Russian inter-government aviation official Sunday rejected the IS group’s claims it brought down the Russian passenger plane which crashed Saturday in Sinai leaving all ... Read More