Sinai Peninsula

Bedouin gunmen ambushed an Egyptian patrol that had seized contraband cement destined for the Gaza Strip, triggering an hours-long standoff in the desert that left one officer and five...

It has been alleged that foreign control of large swathes of the Sinai Peninsula has been obtained through fraud. The claim was made by Egyptian writer and intellectual Fahmi...

The commander of the Egyptian Air Force has said that his country is not expecting any amendments to the Camp David treaty from Israel in order to allow Egypt...

Israel's Prime Minister has expressed his cabinet's readiness to consider any Egyptian request to amend the Camp David accords to allow for an increase in the number of Egyptian...

Israel's Defence Minister Ehud Barak has said that the Israeli Defence Forces on the borders with Egypt will continue to be on high alert until the security situation settles...

Egypt has sent around 800 soldiers to the Sinai Peninsula in response to the popular demonstrations demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Israel gave its consent for the...

A former official in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has warned of Israeli intentions and efforts to reoccupy the Sinai Peninsula. Ambassador Hassan Issa, the former Director of...

Security sources in Egypt have denied that the rockets fired towards Eilat in Southern Israel came from the Sinai Peninsula, saying that such an accusation was "illogical". The denial...

Former Egyptian presidential candidate Dr Abdel Moneim Abul-Futouh has said that Arab leaders must not remain silent about what is happening in Gaza. However, he called on Arab countries...

An adviser to the Egyptian president has said that the blame for the current tension and unrest in Sinai has to rest with the terms of the peace treaty...

A Cairo court has thrown out a lawsuit calling for the abolition of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. The court ruled that the issue is a "matter...

The Jerusalem Committee of the Union of Arab Doctors is organising its second three-day Jerusalemite summer camp at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. The camp...

A spokesman for President Morsi has claimed that Egypt has not received any official objections from Israel to the deployment of tanks in Sinai. Speaking to Aljazeera, he stressed...

The Policy Director at Israel's Ministry of Defence has said that Egypt has complete sovereignty over the Sinai Peninsula and does not need cooperation with the Israelis to crack...

A leading strategy and security analyst in Egypt has called for a review of the peace agreement with Israel in the wake of the attack which resulted in the...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz has revealed that the Israeli army has deployed tanks on the border with Egypt following clashes near the Kadesh Barnea settlement. The move breaches the...

The pipeline used to supply Egyptian gas to Israel and Jordan has been attacked for what is believed to be the fourteenth time since the overthrow of the Mubarak...

The Israeli government has threatened to launch military operations in the Sinai Peninsula in order, it claims, to prevent attacks from the Egyptian territory. According to Haaretz newspaper, the...

The Egyptian Minister of Defence has banned private ownership of land along the border between Sinai and Israel in order to boost security in the region. General Abdel Fattah...

On Sunday, Egyptian Security apprehended an Israeli national, Ibrahim Shlomi, on his arrival at the city of Taba in the South Sinai Peninsula along the Egypt-Israel border. The official...

A senior Hamas official in Gaza has confirmed that the government has no political contact with the coup regime in Cairo due to the latter's belief that the Islamic...

In cooperation with Egypt's Military Engineering Unit, Egyptian border forces have destroyed ten tunnels between the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, according to Egyptian security sources. In addition,...

Egypt has deported 50 Ethiopians after they were caught in the Sinai Peninsula trying to infiltrate across the border into Israel. Official sources at Cairo International Airport said that...

On Friday, in Egypt's largely lawless Sinai Peninsula, a drone strike killed at least four suspected Islamic militants and destroyed a rocket launcher. The attack, which came one day...

The Israeli authorities have said that an unknown man was killed and another was wounded by border guards when the two tried to cross the border from the Sinai...

Thirty years after it was signed, the Egypt-Israel peace treaty is the focus of attention in strategic debate in Washington, Tel Aviv and Cairo. The renewed interest arises from...

The question of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel was raised after the Eilat incident and its aftermath when six Egyptian border police were killed by Israel. In...