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Egypt: Seven Killed In Militant Attack On Security Forces In North Sinai #ANNnews

Egyptian interior ministry says on Wednesday, seven police officers have been killed in co-ordinated militant attacks on three checkpoints in North Sinai. The clashes occurred near the regional capital Al-Arish.

Media reports say seven militants also died and that two were wearing explosive vests.

Islamic State group has claimed responsibility saying it carried out the simultaneous attacks, the…

Security sources: Militants kill two in Egypt’s Sinai

An Egyptian military vehicle is seen on the highway in northern Sinai, Egypt.

:: Militants killed two people including a policeman at a bank in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Thursday and wounded several others, security sources said.

The militants fired a rocket and shot at police who were guarding the bank in the town of Al-Arish, the sources said.

Police fired back but the militants fled the…

Calling it the “deadliest terror attack in modern Egyptian History,” a Sinai Mosque was the target of a bombing and gunfire on Friday. The al-Rawda mosque, where Sufis gathered in the town of Bir al-Abed, was attacked during Jummah (Friday) prayers, killing at least 235 people, wounding over a hundred more. Screenshot via Twitter The BBC reported that the gunmen pulled up to the Mosque in four…

Christians Flee Their Homes After ISIS Attacks In Egypt

Nabila Halim, pictured right, is consoled by her sister at a government hostel in Ismailia. (CNN) “Are you a Christian?” (more…)

On 3-3-17 I Reblogged An Article With Serious Misquotes Of Bishop Angaelos Of The Coptic Orthodox Church Of The U.K.

  Earlier today I received an email letting me know that one of the articles that I reblogged from one of my readers was filled with mistakes.  I always try to only print articles that are totally the truth and in the four plus years that I have been managing this website this is the first time that I have been informed that something that I reblogged for someone was needed to be deleted because…

Egypt finds 15 African migrants ‘shot dead’ on border with Israel

An African migrant, who was wounded during gunfire near the border with Israel, lies on a stretcher as he is taken to the hospital at Al Arish city, in the northern part of Sinai peninsula, Egypt, Nov. 15, 2015.

The bodies of 15 African migrants were found in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli border on Sunday after they were shot dead, security sources and a medical official said.

“Fiftee…

Two Egyptian policemen shot dead by ISIS in Sinai

An Egyptian military vehicle is seen on the highway in northern Sinai, Egypt in this May 25, 2015 file photo.

Two Egyptian policemen have been shot dead in the bastion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group in the Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by the militants Sunday.

“A police captain and a policeman died of their wounds after unknown assailants…