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An Egyptian court has sentenced 37 people to death convicted of terrorism today, Reuters reported.

One of them is a former officer of the Egyptian security force named Hisham al-Ashmawy, who was captured in the Libyan city of Derna at the end of 2018. He was transferred last May to Egyptian authorities by Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar.

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on April 10, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as authorities closed a border crossing over security threats, officials said.

The incident, which did not cause injuries or major damage, came only hours before the start of the week-long Jewish Passover holiday at sundown.

A little known Egyptian group has claimed responsibility for the killing of a senior Egyptian army officer outside his suburban Cairo home.

The claim came in a statement by the "Banner of the Revolution" posted late on Oct. 22 on social media accounts known to be sympathetic to militant groups. The claim's authenticity could not be immediately verified.

Egypt's affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) threatened on August 5 to execute a Croatian kidnapped in Cairo last month within 48 hours if Muslim women jailed in Egypt are not freed.

Egypt has imposed restrictions on female citizens traveling to Turkey, police said on May 17, months after introducing similar measures for men to stop them joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group.

Women aged 18 to 40 are now required to obtain security clearance before going to Turkey, a senior police officer told AFP, without specifying why.

Egyptian authorities hanged six men convicted of killing soldiers May 17, police said, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations two of them had been in custody at the time of their alleged crimes.

Jihadists in Egypt's Sinai killed 15 soldiers and two civilians in attacks on checkpoints on April 2, security officials said, the deadliest in months despite a massive army campaign against the insurgents.
 

A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into a police base in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on March 9, killing a civilian and wounding 24 policemen, security and health officials said.
      
The attack took place in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, minutes after a nighttime curfew was lifted at 6:00 am (0400 GMT).
      

Egypt has imposed restrictions on male citizens traveling to Turkey and war-torn Libya to stop them joining jihadist organizations like the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a security official said Dec. 10.

Canada on Dec. 8 joined Britain in closing its embassy in Cairo to the public for security reasons, with neither country providing details about any specific threat.
      
The move comes amid increasing attacks by Islamist militants in Egypt and calls from the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for attacks on Western targets.