Egypt Attack

A monkey attack sent a TV host running out of the studio in the middle of an interview.

Nineteen people died and 30 were injured in an explosion resulting from a car crash in central Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said early this morning.There was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack

Egyptian police killed 40 "terrorists" in separate raids early Saturday, a day after a roadside bomb near the Giza pyramids killed three Vietnamese tourists and their guide, the interior ministry said.

Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt on Friday, killing seven in the latest assault on the religious minority claimed by the ISIS.

Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday.

Israel said Sunday it used a combination of air strikes and other means to destroy a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into the country and continuing into Egypt.

The extremist Islamic State group's branch in Egypt's Sinai peninsula has taken a simmering dispute with the Palestinian Hamas group based in nearby Gaza to new levels in a 22-minute video calling on its followers to attack the group and executing what it said was a collaborator.

A gunman opened fire on a church south of Cairo on Friday and was shot dead by policemen, police officials said.

A Sufi leader associated with a mosque where suspected Islamic State group gunmen massacred hundreds of worshippers in Egypt said Tuesday the jihadists had warned against holding Sufi rituals there.

Egypt's years-long military campaign against a jihadist insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula is under increasing scrutiny following a devastating mosque attack last week.

The young Egyptian imam who survived the Sinai mosque massacre that killed 305 people vowed Sunday from his hospital bed to go back and resume the sermon he never finished.

Gunmen who attacked a mosque in North Sinai were carrying an ISIS flag, Egyptian officials said on Saturday as the state news agency reported the death toll had risen to 305, including 27 children.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today strongly condemned the terror attack at a mosque in Egypt and said that the persisting menace of terrorism remains a formidable challenge that calls for concerted global response.

Terrorists killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down fleeing worshippers in the deadliest such attack in Egypt's modern history, state media and witnesses said.

Egyptian air force jets have destroyed vehicles used in the Sinai mosque attack and "terrorist" locations where weapons and ammunition were stocked, the army spokesman said Friday.

A monkey attack sent a TV host running out of the studio in the middle of an interview.

Nineteen people died and 30 were injured in an explosion resulting from a car crash in central Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said early this morning.There was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack

Egyptian police killed 40 "terrorists" in separate raids early Saturday, a day after a roadside bomb near the Giza pyramids killed three Vietnamese tourists and their guide, the interior ministry said.

Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt on Friday, killing seven in the latest assault on the religious minority claimed by the ISIS.

Egyptian security forces have thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a church just outside of Cairo, state television said on Saturday.

Israel said Sunday it used a combination of air strikes and other means to destroy a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into the country and continuing into Egypt.

The extremist Islamic State group's branch in Egypt's Sinai peninsula has taken a simmering dispute with the Palestinian Hamas group based in nearby Gaza to new levels in a 22-minute video calling on its followers to attack the group and executing what it said was a collaborator.

A gunman opened fire on a church south of Cairo on Friday and was shot dead by policemen, police officials said.

A Sufi leader associated with a mosque where suspected Islamic State group gunmen massacred hundreds of worshippers in Egypt said Tuesday the jihadists had warned against holding Sufi rituals there.

Egypt's years-long military campaign against a jihadist insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula is under increasing scrutiny following a devastating mosque attack last week.

The young Egyptian imam who survived the Sinai mosque massacre that killed 305 people vowed Sunday from his hospital bed to go back and resume the sermon he never finished.

Gunmen who attacked a mosque in North Sinai were carrying an ISIS flag, Egyptian officials said on Saturday as the state news agency reported the death toll had risen to 305, including 27 children.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today strongly condemned the terror attack at a mosque in Egypt and said that the persisting menace of terrorism remains a formidable challenge that calls for concerted global response.

Terrorists killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down fleeing worshippers in the deadliest such attack in Egypt's modern history, state media and witnesses said.

Egyptian air force jets have destroyed vehicles used in the Sinai mosque attack and "terrorist" locations where weapons and ammunition were stocked, the army spokesman said Friday.