Sources: Reuters
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
An Egyptian Army raid in central Sinai kills at least 14 ISIL militants. 2017-02-6
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
Eleven civilians and two Egyptian Army soldiers have been killed in three attacks in the northern Sinai Peninsula. 2015-04-8
One soldier and seven civilians, including two children, are killed in two successive mortar blasts in Egypt's city of Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. 2014-07-14
At least 24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack near Rafah in the Sinai Peninsula. 2013-08-19
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 originating from the Egyptian-administrated Sinai Peninsula strike parts of southern Israel. 2012-11-19