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On 8 May 2022, at least ten soldiers and one officer were killed during an attack at a checkpoint at a water pumping station in El Qantara, [1] Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Five more were injured. [2] Afterwards, chase continued in a secluded part of the Sinai Peninsula. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. [2]
On 8 October 2023, a police officer fired his gun into a group of bus passengers in Alexandria, Egypt. [1] The attack occurred during a trip past Pompey's Pillar. [2] Two Israeli tourists and an Egyptian tour guide were killed, and another Israeli was wounded. [3]
The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt's leading center for the study of Sunni Islam, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, denounced the deadly attacks, calling them a "despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents." [30] Following the attacks, Muslims gathering inside mosques to donate blood for victims. Egyptians also showed solidarity with the ...
Israel's military blamed an "aerial threat" in the Red Sea region: a possible reference to Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement which is known to use drones. Egyptian army spokesperson Colonel ...
The attack was carried out by Israeli Air Force F4 Phantom II fighter bombers, at 9:20 am on Wednesday 8 April. Five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles struck the single-floor school, which consisted of three classrooms.
The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year's had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News. Shamsud-Din Jabbar ...
In the days immediately after the attack the Air Force announced that it had pursued and destroyed some of the militants' vehicles and weapons stocks. [28] Airstrikes were also conducted in the neighboring mountains. [44] In February 2018, Egypt responded to this attack with major air strikes and land assaults against terrorist positions in ...
The Jordanian government has condemned a terrorist attack. Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs and government spokesman Mohammad Momani expressed Jordan's solidarity with Egypt in facing terrorism and rejecting all forms of terrorist acts that aim to destabilise Egypt's security and stability, calling for collective international action to eradicate terrorism.