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Sinai Peninsula News
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A major operation against jihadists in Egypt has killed 28 fighters in the Sinai Peninsula since it was launched by the military on Friday, the army said on Monday.
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The hangings took place at two prisons in the north of the country early on Tuesday, the sources said.
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Militants carried out a bomb and gun assault on a mosque in Rawda village in North Sinai province on Friday, killing 305 people.
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More than 300 people were killed in Friday`s bomb and gun assault -- the deadliest in the country`s recent history.
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The Islamic State group`s Egypt branch is the main suspect in Friday`s massacre at a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Egypt's armed forces say they have killed three "high-level" suspected militants and arrested 74 others in sweeps in the troubled northern Sinai Peninsula in recent days.
At least 52 Egyptian police and conscripts were killed and six more wounded in a gun battle on Friday during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in the western desert, three security sources said.
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The state of emergency, which would have expired at the end of June, has been extended by three months, cabinet statement showed, meaning it will now last at least until the end of September.
Ten Egyptian soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings as they clashed with Islamic State group jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula.
The Islamic State group in Egypt claims to have executed five men it accused of working for the army, which is battling the jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula.
Egyptian authorities today executed a jihadist convicted of involvement in a 2013 gun attack on police in the Sinai Peninsula, state media reported.
The Egyptian military has launched airstrikes on "terrorist positions" in the Sinai Peninsula after a dozen of its soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack on a military checkpoint earlier on Friday.
Suspected Islamic State gunmen killed 12 members of Egypt`s military in North Sinai province and wounded six more in an attack on a checkpoint on Friday, the military said, adding that it killed 15 militants in return.
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The army in a statement said that head of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis movement, identified as Abu Duaa al-Ansari, and a number of his aides were killed in airstrikes .
An Egyptian air strike killed the head of the Islamic State group in the Sinai Peninsula along with top aides and dozens of other jihadists, the Army said on Thursday.
The Pentagon wants to cut the number of US peacekeeping troops in Egypt`s Sinai Peninsula, partly because of the growing threat from the Islamic State group, an official said Tuesday.
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A mortar attack on a checkpoint in Egypt`s restive Sinai Peninsula killed 13 policemen on Saturday, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi on Wednesday admitted that a Russian passenger plane was downed by terrorists to harm the country's tourism industry and its ties with Russia, months after he dismissed ISIS' claims that the terror group hit the jet killing all 224 people aboard.
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The Islamic State group has said it smuggled a bomb on board a Russian airliner.
The officials say police opened fire on the migrants today after they ignored warning shots and sprinted toward the fence.
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