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The Houthis claim to have shot down a United States MQ-9 Reaper drone in the Red Sea.
2024-02-19

A Norwegian-owned tanker en route to Réunion, M-V "Swan Atlantic", is attacked in the Red Sea. The owner of the ship saying that it was hit by an "unidentified object" that struck its port side causing a small fire but no injuries.
2023-12-18

In the Red Sea, the United States Navy destroyer USS "Carney" uses SM-2 missiles to shoot down three cruise missiles and eight drones launched by Houthi forces in Yemen. The Pentagon says that the missiles and drones were "potentially headed towards Israel".
2023-10-19

King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud announces, during his trip to Cairo, that a bridge crossing the Red Sea will be built, linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says the bridge will be named after the Saudi monarch. A Saudi–Egypt Causeway project has been in the works for years.
2016-04-8

Tourism bookings in Egypt’s main Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh plunge in the wake of the plane crash with some 80% of reservations cancelled and at least 40% of the tourists leaving the resort since the crash.
2015-11-11

Egypt's state prosecutor Hisham Barakat dies in a bomb attack in Cairo.
2015-06-29

A bomb detonates at a traffic police post in Cairo, Egypt, injuring three people.
2014-04-15

At least two people are killed and over 600 injured in violent clashes with police in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following mass protests against Egypt's post-revolutionary military leadership.
2011-11-19

The former President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, leaves the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to return to Cairo for his trial.
2011-08-3

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a leading Islamic preacher associated with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is to lead public prayers in Cairo's Tahrir Square for the first time in thirty years.
2011-02-18