Sinai insurgency

15 migrants were found dead at Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula near the Israeli border on Sunday after being shot dead. Security sources confirmed that the migrants were shot dead, but the circumstances surrounding the shooting was still unclear.

The first attacker in Paris carnage identified by French authorities is 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai who had been known to police but had never been imprisoned, AFP reported.

Isis militants released an audio message repeating their claim to have brought down the Russian jet which crashed on Saturday and caused the death of hundreds Russian tourists and crew.

Victor Sorochenko, the head of Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee, said it was too early to conclude what caused the crash on Saturday killing all 224 people on board.

After inspecting the crash site on the Sinai peninsula, he told reporters debris was found across a 20sq km-wide area of Sinai.

A militant group affiliated to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Egypt claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Oct. 31, the group said in a statement circulated by supporters on Twitter.

A passenger jet traveling from the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg disappeared from radar screens in Cypriot airspace. The Russian Kogalymavia airlines Airbus A-321, according to sources, had 217 passengers (17 children) and seven crew members on board. All of the passengers were Russian civilians.

Egypt's army said on Sept.8 it had launched a "major military operation" against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 29 jihadists and leaving two soldiers dead.

A car bomb targeted a state security building in northern Cairo early on Thursday, injuring six Egyptian policemen.

The explosion, which occurred in the Shubra district, destroyed the facade of the building., Al Jazeera informs.

At present, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the BBC reports.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified on Aug. 16 an anti-terrorism law which stipulates exorbitant fines, and possible suspension from employment, for "false" reporting on militant attack.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) Egypt affiliate said in a statement on a social media site it carried out an attack in North Sinai on military checkpoints that killed five members of the country's security forces on July 18.

The deaths occurred when several mortar rounds hit two checkpoints, security sources said earlier.