Sinai

Ancient texts from St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, Egypt, that were concealed for centuries under other texts until they were revealed through the use of state-of-the-art technology will go on display for four days starting on Monday at the Greek Foreign Ministry.

Russian Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said that the explosion of a homemade bomb of up to 1kg of TNT equivalent was the cause of the crash of the Kogalymavia flight 9268 A321 airbus over Sinai, Egypt, while en route from Sharm El-Sheikh to St. Petersburg on October 31.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants launched a wide-scale coordinated assault on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on July 1 in which 50 people were killed, security sources said, the largest attack yet in the insurgency-hit province. 

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.

BELGRADE - The members of the Serbian Armed Forces are highly valued in international missions and are making a major contribution to them, participants of a seminar on modern multinational operations said in Belgrade on Friday.