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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 ...
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]
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 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 ...
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.
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 second bomb was a truck bomb that was driven into the lobby of the Ghazala Gardens hotel, a 176-room four-star establishment in the Naama Bay area, a strip of beachfront hotels some 6 km from the town centre. About 45 people died in the blast. The final bomb was hidden in a suitcase and exploded outside the Moevenpick Hotel, killing six ...
The next day, Mahmoud Tawfik the Interior Minister of Egypt, said that the car contained explosives and was to be used in a terrorist operation. [2] The explosives-filled car was on its way to commit an attack in another part of the capital. Tawfik accused the Hasm Movement of carrying out the bombing, but the group denied the allegations. [3]