As an Egyptian court sentences 529 to death in an attack on police, US Congress mulls lifting restrictions that hold up a $1.5 billion aid package to the regime.
With Field Marshal al-Sisi consolidating his rule in alliance with Mubarak-era "left-overs," a Qaedist insurgency is rapidly spreading from the Sinai to the rest of Egypt.
At least 12 Egyptian soldiers were killed in a car bomb near El-Arish—the latest attack in the Sinai, which is now more militarized than at any time since the Israeli occupation ended.
While the new deadly street clashes in Cairo made international news, near-daily insurgent attacks on Eyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula continue with little notice.
At least 25 Egyptian soldiers were killed by militants in an ambush on their convoy in the Sinai peninsula—the scene of daily attacks on security forces since the coup.
Muslim Brotherhood supporters unleashed their rage on Coptic Christians, with several churches, homes, and Copt-owned businesses attacked throughout the country.
Egyptian militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed that a strike that killed four of its fighters in the Sinai peninsula was carried out by an Israeli drone.
Troops fired on protesters in the Sinai, and militants retaliated with armed attacks on police. A new Salafist network, Ansar al-Sharia in Egypt, pledges to resist the new regime.
Egypt has declared a state of alert in the Sinai after extremist Islamist fighters set up a military base in the peninsula ahead of planned anti-government protests.
The jihad against a non-existent “film” produced by non-existent “Jews” continues to claim lives, with the latest attack launched by militants in Egypt’s Sinai on Israeli border troops.
Hamas security forces arrested a Salafi sheikh upon his release from a Gaza hospital where he was treated for wounds sustained in an Israeli targeted strike.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood blamed the deadly attack at the Rafah crossing on Israel’s Mossad, while the IDF said it was carried out by “global jihadists.”
