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cities, towns & villages of North Sinai
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Ahram Online
March 24, 2018
The food convoys set off from the headquarters of the North Sinai Security Sector and head towards various distribution locations in Arish. On reaching the city one convoy heads to 23 July Street in downtown Arish, a second heads to the northern part of the city and a third to the Zohour neighbourhood ofÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 23, 2018
Government allocations for projects implemented in the current year in North Sinai have totaled LE174.5 million, North Sinai governor Abdel Fattah ... A number of development projects in North Sinai have been launched in various sectors in several cities, in accordance to the development plan andÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 21, 2018
Three automatic guns and explosive devices ready for detonation were found in the hideout of one of the abandoned houses in the North Sinai city Al-Arish. The forces also raided a camp for terrorist elements in the Rafah and seized a communication center used by the takfiri elements. The forcesÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 16, 2018
Egypt's Interior Ministry said in official statement on Thursday that five militant stationing points were targeted during sweeping operations conducted from both police and military forces inside the North Sinai city Al-Arish. The statement added that the stationing points were targeted as part of the ongoingÃâà...
Egypt Independent
March 13, 2018
Al-Masry Al-Youm received details on land allocated to a new development project in North Sinai, which will be discussed by a committee formed by ... adding that the project includes not only agricultural development, but the establishment of villages including five villages in Sahl Teena area and twoÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
March 12, 2018
Two soldiers were killed as part of a massive military operation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian military on Sunday. In a statement, military spokesman Col. Tamer Rifai said the two were killed and six others injured “as a result of combat operations”, without giving further details.
BU Today
March 8, 2018
Despite positive pronouncements by the Sisi regime, Egypt's campaign against ISIS affiliated fighters in the North Sinai is not going well. Part of the problem is the regime's blunt force approach — indiscriminate bombing as well as the razing of entire villages and some extrajudicial killings — is ill suited toÃâà...
Mada Masr
March 4, 2018
Under the strict limitations on movement imposed by the Armed Forces, the cities of Rafah, Sheikh Zuwayed and Arish had been emptied of all commonly used vegetables, poultry, legumes and flour. The shortage has led to a devastating food crisis, especially in North Sinai's capital and highly populatedÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 1, 2018
IN A STATEMENT released on 27 February, a military spokesperson reported that 11 Islamist militants had been killed by military forces during a counter-terrorism operation in Egypt's North Sinai governorate on an earlier unspecified date, BBC Monitoring reported. The statement added that four militantsÃâà...
Egypttoday
March 1, 2018
CAIRO – 1 March 2018: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi is set to inaugurate a new city in North Sinai within the coming few hours, a governmental source ... amusement park and recreation areas, Marina yacht state, an international hospital, Formula 1 circuit races, golf courses, and an Olympic village.
Xinhua
March 1, 2018
CAIRO, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian army announced Thursday it killed 13 more terrorists and arrested 86 suspects in North Sinai province in the ... Egypt's terrorists even stormed a mosque in North Sinai's Arish city last November, killing at least 310 Muslim worshippers and injuring more than 120Ãâà...
Egypttoday
February 28, 2018
He was also updated on the operation success over the past 15 days in North Sinai, as well as on the military's full control over Egyptian ground and ... of a number of Sinai's cities and villages, including the area of Bi'r al-Abd, will be developed,” Member of Parliament representing North Sinai governorateÃâà...
Mada Masr
February 26, 2018
The Islamic State-affiliate Province of Sinai announced on Saturday that its members shot six Egyptian military personnel using snipers west of Sheikh Zuwayed, and that they exchanged fire with another group near Qabr Omayr, a village in North Sinai. The military spokesperson has yet to issue anyÃâà...
Egypt Independent
February 23, 2018
The attacks were planned to be executed by two militants belonging to the Islamic State-affiliated (IS) Sinai Province, as well as another two suicide bombers who were aiming to destroy an army checkpoint used by army battalion 101 in Al-Arish, a North Sinai-based journalist who preferred to remainÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 20, 2018
The attack in the Bir Al-Abed area in the northern Sinai city of el-Arish killed 309 people, including 27 children. ... The journalist added that the army is focusing its strikes on areas where the armed groups were active in the south of north Sinai's three main cities, Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and el-Arish, deep inÃâà...
Egypt Independent
February 19, 2018
Assistant to the President for National and Strategic Projects Ibrahim Mehleb and Advisor to the President for Security Affairs Ahmed Gamal al-Din held meetings with members of the House of Representatives in North Sinai governorate on Saturday, discussing problems facing inhabitants of Sinai duringÃâà...
Egypttoday
February 18, 2018
Schools in North Sinai have been suspended several times due to terrorists groups attempting to destabilize North Sinai. In October 2017, schools in Al-Arish, North Sinai were evacuated after terrorist groups targeted security posts and a national bank, causing some clashes between the armed forces andÃâà...
Egypt Independent
February 16, 2018
Many residents from the North Sinai cities of Al-Arish, Sheikh Zewaid, and Rafah left the governorate after threats increased from the Islamic State-affiliated (IS) group Sinai Province. Threats were aimed against civilians and particularly Coptic Christians. In February, the North Sinai city Al-Arish witnessedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 11, 2018
In November 2017, at least 235 people were killed in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Bir al-Abed, a town in North Sinai province. Afterwards, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi gave a three-month deadline to restore order in the region, using "all brute force" necessary. Egypt will go to the polls nextÃâà...
New York Times
February 3, 2018
Their collaboration in the North Sinai is the most dramatic evidence yet of a quiet reconfiguration of the politics of the region. Shared .... On July 1, 2015, the militants briefly captured control of a North Sinai town, Sheikh Zuwaid, and retreated only after Egyptian jets and helicopters struck the town, state newsÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
According to the latest military statement on March 19, "an officer and three conscripts were killed", while eight troops, including three army officers, were injured. Insurgents: Thirty-six fighters killed in clashes with the military in the North Sinai city of Arish in the past five days. Detentions: More than 3,100Ãâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
Despite positive pronouncements by the Sisi regime, Egypt's campaign against ISIS affiliated fighters in the North Sinai is not going well. Part of the problem is the regime's blunt force approach — indiscriminate bombing as well as the razing of entire villages and some extrajudicial killings — is ill suited toÃâà...
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