The Russian passenger jet that crashed in Sinai, Egypt, must have been damaged by a force in flight and couldnt have just broken apart, the airline of the ill-fated Airbus A321 said.
he crew of Kolavia Flight 7K9268 was apparently disabled before the aircraft started its rapid descent and crashed in the Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, Viktor Yung, ...
CAIRO (AP) Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation said a Russian aircraft carrying 217 passengers and seven crew members crashed Saturday in the restive Sinai peninsula.
The statement said search and rescue teams found the wreckage of the Russian passenger jet in the Hassana area south of the restive city of el-Arish, where Egyptian security forces ...
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham denounced Thursday's terrorist attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Afkham on Friday slammed the deadly attacks and said the purpose behind such acts is to preoccupy Islamic and regional countries withperipheralissues and keep them away from the Muslim worlds top priority, namely ...
JERUSALEM, March 25 (Reuters) - Some U.S. intelligence analysts and Middle East security officials believe that a rocket shipment seized by the Israeli navy in the Red Sea this month was destined for the Egyptian Sinai and not for the Gaza Strip, as Israel says.
A U.S. official and two non-Israeli regional sources said Israel appeared to be insisting ...
Several Egyptian security forces have been injured in an attack in the restive Sinai Peninsula as insecurity continues in the area.
According to a security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, a truck carrying the soldiers came under attack by gunmen near Abu Tawila village in Sheikh Zuwaid, on Sunday.
The soldiers exchanged fire with the ...
Egyptian security officials say a bomb attack has killed three army soldiers and a policeman in the countrys volatile Sinai Peninsula.
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A vacant Egyptian military office in the Sinai Peninsula has been the target of a bomb explosion attack, a security official says.
The official said on Wednesday that suspected militants most likely linked to al-Qaeda, had planted a bomb in the empty military intelligence building in the town of Rafah.
The official added that the office in the ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Four Egyptian soldiers were injured by an explosion in the Sinai peninsula, security officials said.
The soldiers were traveling in an armored vehicle on the el-Arish - Rafah road when a roadside bomb exploded on Saturday, Ma'an reported.
Two of the soldiers were critically wounded and were transferred to a military hospital in ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Egyptian army helicopters launched missile strikes at militant strongholds in the Sinai peninsula on Tuesday, killing and injuring dozens.
Thirteen missiles were fired at positions in the city of Sheikh Zuweid, with army helicopters also targeting weapon caches, Ma'an reported.
In early August, Egypt's military killed 15 militants ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- At least four militants were killed and seven others injured in an air strike launched by the Egyptian army on hideouts of Jihadist militants in North Sinai governorate bordering Israel, a local security source said.
"The air strike targeted a house, a hut and a car in the village of al-Toma near Sheikh Zewaid city in North Sinai ...
Unknown militants have carried out bomb attacks at two Islamic shrines in Egypts Sinai Peninsula, causing serious damage, a report says.
The state news agency MENA said that the militants on Sunday targeted the shrines near the North Sinai town of Bir el-Abd and the area of el-Maghara farther south.
Both (shrines) were badly damaged, the report ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Egypt's interim President Adly Mansour gave Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi the power to grant the military the right to arrest civilians after a weekend of violence between supporters of the country's deposed leader and security forces.
Government officials say the decision could be a prelude to a major crackdown on Mohamed Mursi's ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- Militants blew up a gas pipeline Tuesday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula for the second time since the ouster of President Mohammad Mursi this month, a security source said.
The bomb, planted at the pipeline that exports gas to Jordan, was detonated remotely, Voice of Russia reported.
Military helicopters chased a group of masked militants ...
[caption id="attachment_38170" align="alignright" width="210"] An Egyptian security checkpoint in in the Sinai Peninsula[/caption]
Hamas officials renounceinvolvement in activities in Sinai; Egypt blasts Iran for 'unacceptable interference' in its domestic affairs.
Egyptian security forces have killed dozens of armed men and arrested hundreds ...
[caption id="attachment_38170" align="alignright" width="210"] An Egyptian security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula[/caption]
Two people have been killed and six injured in a militant attack on a security forces checkpoint in the north of Egypts Sinai Peninsula.
On Tuesday night, militants used rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns to ...
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