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Eight civilians and two soldiers were killed in Egypt by militants from a Daesh affiliate group after a convoy of cement trucks from an army factory in the central Sinai Peninsula was ambushed. According to security officials, Lieutenant Colonel Ibrahim Hussein Mohammed was killed in the attack near the town of
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Armed militants killed at least 30 police officers in a shootout during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in Egypt’s western desert, security sources said on Friday. A number of suspected militants were also killed and security forces are searching the area, according to a statement from
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Egypt announced the discovery of a pharaonic tomb in the southern city of Luxor belonging to a royal goldsmith who lived more than 3,500 years ago during the reign of the 18th dynasty. The tomb is located on the west bank of the river Nile in a cemetery
Read More At least 36 died and some 120 others were injured on Friday when two trains collided in the suburbs of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, local media reported citing medical and security sources. The previous death toll stood at 28 people killed and 74 others injured. According to the Youm7 portal, 22
Read More German officials said on Saturday they had been left “dismayed and furious” by the stabbing of two German women at an Egyptian beach resort, calling it a deliberate attack on foreign tourists. An Egyptian man stabbed the two German tourists to death and wounded at least four others on Friday at
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on Friday, July 7 in attacks on several checkpoints in Sinai that included car bombings, the military said in a statement, according to AFP. The military said it killed 40 assailants as it clashed with extremists in North Sinai, where the Islamic
Read More PanARMENIAN.Net - A top antiquities official says an Egyptian excavation team has discovered the remains of a new pyramid that dates back to the 13th Dynasty, some 3700 years ago, The Associated Press reports. The head of the Ancient Egyptian Antiquities Sector, Mahmoud Afifi, said in a statement Monday that the
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PanARMENIAN.Net - Christian families and students fled Egypt's North Sinai province in droves on Friday, Feb. 24 after Islamic State killed the seventh member of their community in just three weeks, Reuters reports. A Reuters reporter saw 25 families gathered with their belongings in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia's Evangelical
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