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Breaking News Islamists Claim Sinai Tourist Bus Bombing That Killed 4
An Islamist group linked to Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack on a tour bus traveling from the Sinai Peninsula to Israel, which left at least four dead. Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis took responsibility for the attack on Egyptian soil and promised others in order to disrupt the country’s economy, tourism, and military, according to reports….
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Breaking News Blast on Sinai Tourist Bus Kills 4, Wounds 33
An explosion on a tourist bus in Egypt’s Sinai near the Israeli border killed four people and wounded 33, according to Haaretz. Israeli police said they heard an explosion from the Egyptian side of the Taba border crossing. The blast took place after the bus entered Egypt from Israel, security sources said. The border crossing…
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Opinion Sinai’s Surge in Islamist Terror Gives Israel Jitters
A surge in terror activity by Al Qaeda affiliates in Sinai is frightening tourists in the southern Israel resort town of Eilat, and that’s making city officials and business leaders very nervous. It’s infuriating the Egyptian military. And it’s hardening Israeli attitudes toward the peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Not surprisingly, it’s also reopening the…
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Opinion Cutting Egypt Aid Would Kill Mideast Peace Hopes
At the risk of sounding ethnocentric, the current earthquake in Egypt has enormous implications for the well-being of Israel, and not in a good way. Put simply, the course of action that seems self-evidently proper to right-minded Americans — punishing the Egyptian military, ending military cooperation, suspending aid — will almost certainly have a catastrophic…
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Breaking News Israel Stays Quiet on Drone Strike Near Egypt Border
Israel is neither confirming nor denying that it was responsible for a drone attack on terrorists near its border with Egypt. In a statement issued late Saturday night, Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that ‘‘Israel respects the full sovereignty of Egypt,’’ and that Israel is ‘‘aware of the Egyptian military’s increased activity against terror…
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Breaking News Israeli Drone Attack Kills 4 Sinai Militants
An Islamist militant group said on Saturday four of its members were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Egypt’s North Sinai region. “Our heroes became martyrs during their jihadi duties against the Jews in a rocket attack on occupied lands,” the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group said on a jihadist website. Egyptian security sources said…
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Breaking News Israel Boosts Missile Defense in South Amid Sinai Chaos
Israel has boosted its rocket defences near its southern border with Egypt to counter possible attacks from Islamist militants fighting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, Israeli officials said on Tuesday. Violence in Sinai has surged since the army ousted elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on July 3, with militants killing at least 20 people…
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Breaking News Mursi Ousting Fuels Islamic Militant Groups in the Sinai
Within hours of Egypt’s elected president being overthrown this month, militant fellow Islamists in the Sinai peninsula were talking of making war on Cairo’s security forces. Scarcely had a video surfaced on YouTube of hundreds of men chanting “No to peace!”, than police and troops were attacked in El Arish and other North Sinai towns….
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