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In 2011, a NATO-backed uprising toppled Libya's longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi, and the country has witnessed instability and unrest ever since. [12] Egyptian authorities have long expressed concern over the instability in eastern Libya spilling over into Egypt due to the rise of jihadist movements there, a region which Cairo believes to have developed into a safe transit for wanted Islamists ...
On 16 February 2015, Egyptian F-16s struck weapons caches and training camps of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Libya. The air strikes killed 64 ISIS fighters, including three leaders in Derna and Sirte on the coast. [15] 55 were captured in ground assaults. [16] 7 civilians were also killed by the air strike. [17]
On 1 May, ISIS operatives broke into houses in Al-Amal, south of Al-Arish, searching for suspected collaborators with the Egyptian army. Being unable to find them, they executed three of their relatives [159] On 30 May, Colonel Khaled Al-Arian was killed by an ISIS sniper attack on an Egyptian army patrol in Sheikh Zuweid, in northern Sinai.
The US’ key anti-ISIS partners in Syria said on Wednesday that the ISIS detention facilities they guard are coming under attack and that they have been forced to halt anti-ISIS operations, ...
The New York Times earlier this month noted that the way Jabbar flew his flag, from the trailer hitch in the back of his rented Ford F-150 EV, was the same as in an ISIS propaganda poster ...
Bes appears as a character in Otherland: volume 3 Mountain of Black Glass (1999) by Tad Williams. His physical description reflects traditional iconography. Bes is a friend and helper to the heroes in Pyramid Scheme (2001) by Eric Flint and Dave Freer. Bes appears, as a god of love in the Egyptian movie Secret Service Suitor (Aris min geha ...
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks a day after. [2] [3] [4] 4 January – In a speech published on Al-Furqan, ISIS spokesperson Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari called for supporters to attack Israeli and Jewish targets in the United States and Europe and to "avenge" the killings of Palestinians by the Israel Defense Forces during the Israel ...
The repeating itinerary was due to call at three Egyptian Red Sea ports: Sharm El Sheikh, the main resort; Port Sokhna, about 60 miles southeast of Cairo; and Safaga, about 100 miles northeast of ...