Sinai insurgency

Turkey condemned the attack on a water pumping station east of the Suez Canal in Egypt on May 7, killing 11 soldiers and injuring five.

In a written statement on May 8, the Foreign Ministry extended its condolences to the families of people who lost their lives and the Egyptian state and wished a speedy recovery to those injured.

Egyptian police killed 40 alleged "terrorists" in a crackdown on Saturday after a roadside bomb hit a tour bus claiming the lives of three Vietnamese holidaymakers and an Egyptian guide.

Egypt's army has drastically stepped up its demolitions of homes, businesses and farms in the Sinai since launching a widespread campaign against militants in February, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.

Russia and Egypt are to resume direct flights on April 11 following a more than two-year hiatus after a bomb downed a Russian charter over the Sinai peninsula in 2015.

Egypt on Tuesday executed four alleged Islamic militants following their conviction by a military tribunal in the killing of three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack that wounded six others./ABC News

The attack took place outside a stadium in the Nile Delta city of Kafr el-Sheikh as the military cadets were waiting for a bus to take them to the academy.

Egypt mourns as the death toll from a gun and bomb assault on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula soared above 300 on Nov. 25, including children, in the deadliest attack the country has witnessed.

Militants killed 184 people at a mosque in Egypt's north Sinai region on Friday, detonating a bomb and shooting at fleeing worshippers and ambulances, state media and witnesses said.

Turkey said it strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack that hit a mosque in northern Sinai area of Egypt, killing at least 184 people on Nov 24.

At least 180 people were killed in a mosque on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. The injured are at least 150, reports Independent. 

At least 54 killed, 75 wounded after militants target mosque in Egypt's North Sinai with bomb, gunfire, state-run MENA news agency reported on Nov. 24