Egypt’s plans to conduct live-fire exercises in Sinai have alarmed Israel’s residents and security officers on the other side of their shared border. Although the drills were coordinated with Israel ...

No sooner had Syria’s Bashar al-Assad been toppled – removing, at least for the immediate future, the likelihood of a full-blown war with one of Israel’s most bitter and well-equipped enemies – then ...

Egypt is making moves in the Sinai Peninsula and also seeking to shore up its support abroad. It has close ties in the Gulf, and recent reports indicate it is also reaching out to Turkey, with Ankara ...

A Bedouin smuggler, armed with a Glock pistol, in the Sinai Peninsula. Some Bedouin make a living smuggling goods and humans from Egypt across the Gaza and Israel bordersPhotograph by Holly Pickett ...

“Don’t send reinforcements to Sinai,” Kamal Allam, the military commander of Wilayat Sinai, or Sinai Province (SP), taunted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. “Send your whole army. It will die ...