(AP) JERUSALEM - Israeli officials said Tuesday that Egypt is violating the historic 1979 peace treaty between the two countries by deploying tanks in the demilitarized Sinai desert near the Israeli ...

RAFAH, Egypt — Vast areas of Egypt's Sinai desert have descended into lawlessness in recent months, providing fertile ground for small cells of extremist militants that have emerged from the shadows ...

Bombings are apparently a response to military crackdown on insurgents Egypt Col.%3A %22This will not stop us%2C but will increase our determination%22 No one has yet claimed responsibility for attack ...

When Egypt’s long-time President Hosni Mubarak fell to the throes of the people in 2011, one of his crony institutions to also collapse was the Mabahith Amn ad-Dawla, Egypt’s State Security ...

The Sinai Peninsula is the new front line in the battle against ISIS. But the men defending Sinai aren’t soldiers or police. They are Bedouin tribe members, who say ...

Reporting from Serabit el Khadim, Egypt — Bedouin hiking guide Mussallam Faraj beamed while chatting late into the evening in a desert in the southwest of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. In the background, ...

An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) claimed responsibility Thursday for the murder of a priest in the Sinai Peninsula, a region with great spiritual significance for ...

Israel received Egypt%27s OK before launching drone strike%2C killing five%2C initial reports said Egypt then changed its story%2C but evidence of unprecedented cooperation is growing North Sinai has ...

Abu Daoud opens the back door to his Land Cruiser in the darkness of the open desert and flicks on his cigarette lighter to illuminate the large, mounted, belt-fed machine gun in the trunk. “This is ...

Mourad Mwafi has been in charge of North Sinai, Egypt’s eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf ...

The observer mission in the Sinai says all indications point to an accident. Five Americans were among seven international peacekeepers killed when their helicopter crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

The Egyptian army announced Thursday it had killed a key ISIS-allied leader in the Sinai Peninsula. Dead is the head of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis movement, identified as Abu Duaa al-Ansari, and a ...