Posts Tagged: Egyptian Military
Palestinians Say Egyptian Fire Kills Gaza Fisherman; Cairo Denies
Egyptian naval forces fired on a Palestinian fishing boat and killed a fisherman on Wednesday, Gaza's Interior Ministry said, but an Egyptian military source denied...
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...
Israel Ranked 15th Most Militarily Powerful Nation in World, Ahead of Iran, Behind Turkey and Egypt
Israel ranks among the top 25 military powers in the world -- but so do several of its historical and current adversaries, according to the...
ISIS-Linked News Agency Claims Israeli Air Force Struck Three Targets in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula This Week
The Israeli Air Force conducted three strikes in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula this week, the ISIS-linked Amaq news agency reported on Tuesday, according to the Hebrew...
Egypt Destroys Weapons-Smuggling Tunnel Under Gaza Border
JNS.org - Egyptian security forces recently destroyed a 0.75-mile-long tunnel near Rafah under the border between the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza that was used...
Israeli Spy Beheaded in the Sinai, Note on Corpse Says
JNS.org - Residents in Egypt's war-torn Sinai Peninsula said they found a beheaded corpse with a note by Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, an Islamic State-linked...
Egyptians Foil Attempted Sinai Rocket Attacks Against Israel
Egyptian security officials this week apparently thwarted a planned rocket strike against Israel from the Sinai, when they seized three projectiles ready for firing, mounted...
Egypt Destroys 13 Gaza Tunnels, Hunts Islamist Terrorists
JNS.org - The Egyptian military announced on Sunday that its engineering forces located and destroyed 13 cross-border smuggling tunnels dug by Palestinians in Gaza....
Rocket Lands in Golan, Egypt Thwarts Rocket Attack From Sinai
JNS.org - As rocket attacks from Gaza continue, Israel is also facing an increase in rockets fired from Lebanon and Syria. According to the IDF...
Kerry Visits Middle East in Hopes of Reassuring Allies
Wall Street Journal - Secretary of State ...
Egypt Closes Rafah Crossing for Muslim Festival
Egypt has announced that its border crossing with the Gaza Strip will be closed for the week because of the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Adha,...
Gaza-Sinai Border Crossing Closed Indefinitely Following Unrest in Egypt
Egypt closed its border crossing with the Gaza Strip indefinitely on Thursday, a day after widespread violence in the country left hundreds dead, the Palestinian...
Egypt Violence Boils Over, More Than 50 Dead in Clashes
Interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour urged calm Monday following the deaths of at least 50 Muslim Brotherhood protesters, during another violent day in Cairo. In a...
Egyptian Pro-Morsi Protester: ‘A New Taliban and a New al-Qaeda’ Has Been Created in Egypt
A chilling video filmed at a demonstration in Egypt against the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi does not bode well for the prospect of peace...
