Egypt Kills Islamic State Leader in Sinai, Mastermind of Russian Airliner Attack
Intelligence sources have confirmed to Fox News that Egypt has killed the leader of Islamic State forces in the Sinai Peninsula, Abu Dua al-Ansari, in an airstrike.
Intelligence sources have confirmed to Fox News that Egypt has killed the leader of Islamic State forces in the Sinai Peninsula, Abu Dua al-Ansari, in an airstrike.
JAFFA, Israel – Egyptian authorities have stepped up security measures ahead of Monday’s anniversary of the 2011 revolution that toppled the country’s president, Hosni Mubarak, as opposition groups call for rebellion. Welayat Sinai, an Islamic State affiliate in the Egyptian-controlled Sinai peninsula,
TEL AVIV, Israel – The U.S. and European countries should seriously consider adapting the Israeli model of combatting terrorism in order to fight an increasingly aggressive Islamic State, former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit told Breitbart Jerusalem. These measures include deploying armed
Growing confidence among Western intelligence agencies that a terrorist bomb brought down the Russian Metrojet airliner over Sinai on Oct. 31 is not being received well by some in Egypt, where tourism is a major part of the economy.
Not long after British officials voiced suspicions that a bomb destroyed a Russian passenger jet over the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224 people, an American official said U.S. intelligence also has “a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane.”
Egypt confirmed on Saturday that a Russian passenger plan had crashed in central Sinai. A statement from the prime minister’s office said Sherif Ismail had formed a cabinet level crisis committee to deal with the crash. The jet carrying 224