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Eight soldiers are killed by ISIL during anti-terrorism operations in northern Sinai, Egypt. Eighty-nine ISIL militants are also killed. Arms and ammunitions are confiscated, while hundreds of explosive devices, some explosive belts, thirteen tunnel entrances and 200 arms-loaded vehicles are destroyed.
2021-07-31

ISIL claims responsibility for an attack on a military base in the Sinai peninsula, Egypt, yesterday that killed eight soldiers and injured fifteen. The Egyptian Military said 14 militants were killed in the attack.
2018-04-15

Militants ambush a police convoy in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killing 18 police and wounding seven others.
2017-09-11

Four Egyptian security personnel are killed and another four are injured by a roadside bomb near the border town Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula. Islamist militants are suspected to have remotely detonated the device as an armored vehicle drove by the town's center, near the border with the Gaza Strip and Israel, security sources told Ahram Online.
2015-12-8

As a temporary security measure, effective Saturday, Russia bans incoming flights by Egypt's state-owned airline, EgyptAir, two weeks after an apparent terrorist bomb downed a Russian jet in the Sinai.
2015-11-13

A Russian Kogalymavia Airbus A-321 airliner crashes in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula with 224 passengers on board travelling from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg.
2015-10-31

A bomb detonates on a bus carrying Egyptian military conscripts in Arish, injuring 18.
2015-07-26

A suicide bomber kills one person and injures 24 in an attack on a police station in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
2015-03-10

Rockets originating from the Egyptian-administrated Sinai Peninsula strike parts of southern Israel.
2012-11-19

Two American tourists who were kidnapped in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on 13 July 2012 are freed.
2012-07-16