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Egypt president gives forces 3 months to calm restive Sinai

Egypt President gives forces three months to restore Sinai

November 29, 2017 7:03 pm

Egypt's military and police have for years been waging a tough and costly campaign against militants in the towns, villages and desert mountains of northern Sinai.

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Survivors recall attack on mosque in Egypt's Sinai, 305 dead

November 26, 2017 10:10 am

Those who survived spoke of children screaming as they saw parents and older brothers mowed down by gunfire or shredded by the blasts. Some marveled at their narrow escape from a certain death.

Egypt mosque attack: President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi orders construction of mausoleum in memoriam

November 25, 2017 4:06 pm

A local IS affiliate is spearheading the insurgency in Sinai, where government forces have battled militants for years.

A look at the deadliest militant attacks in Egypt

November 25, 2017 1:37 pm

Egypt has been battling an insurgency in the Sinai led by an affiliate of the Islamic State group that intensified after the military's 2013 ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood from power. Hundreds have been killed in what has become a grinding stalemate in Sinai.

Egypt attack: World community extends support to Egypt after dreadful mosque attack

Egypt attack: World community extends support to Cairo after terror strike claims 305 lives

November 25, 2017 4:20 pm

Worshippers were finishing Friday prayers at the Al Rawdah mosque in North Sinai’s Bir al-Abed when the bomb exploded. Around 40 gunmen had set up positions outside the mosque with jeeps and opened fire from different directions as people tried to escape. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.