Fighting terrorism is not restricted to security confrontation but it is a comprehensive plan including eliminating poverty and ignorance and promoting enlightening and renewed religious speech to deal with misconceptions and extremist thoughts, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday during his monthly televised speech.
At least 22 militants have been killed as the Egyptian army launched several raids on their hideouts in northern Sinai province, a security official said on Tuesday.
Unidentified militants kidnapped a police officer in Egypt's North Sinai province on Sunday, the state-run MENA news agency reported.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the night curfew in Sinai Peninsula to be cut by three hours, state-run al-Ahram daily reported on Tuesday.
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced seven defendants to death over murdering 25 policemen in Egypt's North Sinai province last year, official MENA news agency reported.
At least one policeman was injured on Thursday while defusing an explosive device near Ain Shams University in the Egyptian capital Cairo, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.
Terrorist activities have escalated in Egypt over the past few days and the authorities have been intensifying security presence and conducting massive anti- terrorism campaigns in various provinces across the country.
Two policemen were killed and 15 people injured on Wednesday night during a bomb explosion in a railway station in Egypt's Nile Delta province Minufiya, state-run Ahram Arabic website reported.
Egyptian Local Development Minister Adel Labib said on Monday that the attacks in North Sinai will not delay the timing of parliamentary elections, the state-owned daily Ahramonline reported.
The security situation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in general and in North Sinai is "dangerous" but is still "under control" despite the ongoing anti-security terrorist attacks in the region, said Egyptian experts.
The Egyptian army on Thursday killed a leader of Sinai-based, al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis militant group after fierce confrontations at his hideouts in North Sinai's Rafah city, a security source told Xinhua.
At least 14 extremists have been killed in a military raid in the early hours of Sunday in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, an official security source told Xinhua.
An Egyptian court on Monday ruled that the al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis be listed as a terrorist organization, state-run Nile TV reported.
France condemns the terrorist attack on a tourist bus occurred Sunday in south Sinai in Egypt, which killed four people, including three South Korean tourists, French Foreign Ministry said Monday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Sunday strongly condemned a deadly terrorist attack on a tourist bus in southern Sinai, Egypt, calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Egypt's army shot dead a jihadist alleged of being involved in an attack that killed 16 soldiers in the border city of Rafah in northern Sinai last year, the army's spokesman said Tuesday.
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