Sources: Reuters
An Egyptian Army spokesperson says that investigations into the two drones that fell in the towns of Nuweiba and Taba in the Sinai Peninsula yesterday showed that they were heading in a northerly direction across the Red Sea towards Israel. 2023-10-28
Two roadside bombings near Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, kill three Egyptian Army troops and wound 10 others. Separately, Egyptian military raids on Sheikh Zuweid kill four Islamist militants. 2020-12-17
Fourteen people are killed after bombs planted by Islamic State militants explode near civilian homes in Bir al-Abd, Egypt. The bombs were placed when militants attacked several villages in the town in July, forcing people to flee their homes, who then returned a month later when soldiers secured the area. 2020-10-25
The Egyptian Army kills four suspected terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula. 2018-04-8
At least seven people are killed, including five Egyptian Army soldiers, a military officer and a civilian woman in two separate blasts in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. ISIL's Sinai branch claimed responsibility for the attacks on several websites. 2016-04-8
The Russian military launches cruise missile strikes from the Mediterranean on ISIS positions in Al-Raqqah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's de facto capital in Syria, Aleppo, and Idlib. A U.S. official confirms that Russia has conducted a significant number of strikes in Syria using both sea-launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to escalate his military campaign in Syria after it was confirmed that a bomb brought down Metrojet Flight 9268 over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. 2015-11-17
Egypt's security forces shoot dead at least 24 ISIS militants as they hid inside a cave in a mountainous area in central Sinai, not far from the crash site of Metrojet Flight 9268, a Russian airliner the group says it brought down. 2015-11-16
The Egyptian army launches a major operation against Islamist militants in North Sinai killing at least 30 people. 2013-09-7
Six people β including army officers and policemen β are killed and another eleven wounded in a series of militant attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. 2013-07-22
Rockets fired from Gaza, reportedly aiming for Israel, land in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt during the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. 2011-08-21