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Islamic State’s Sinai Affiliate Remains a Destabilizing Force in Egypt

Islamic State’s Sinai Affiliate Remains a Destabilizing Force in Egypt

Bottom Line Up FrontJust last week, the Islamic State's affiliate in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula launched a deadly attack, killing eight police officers [...] More

Persistent ISIS Sinai Threat Drives Israel-Egypt Cooperation

Bottom Line: Relations between Egypt and Israel have often been referred to as a “cold peace,” but the emergence of mutual security threats over the [...] More

How Egypt's Policies Are Driving Support for ISIS in the Sinai

The Friday prayer massacre of more than 300 worshipers at a Sinai was a departure for the local Islamic State affiliate in scale, but not in targets [...] More

Egypt Struggles to Suppress ISIS in the Sinai

Friday’s deadly terrorist attack at the Al-Rawda mosque in the north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula demonstrates that the so-called Islamic State’s Sinai [...] More

Devastating Sinai Attack Points to ISIS

On Friday, militants carried out a devastating attack at a mosque in the city of Bir al-Abed located in Egypt’s northern Sinai province, leaving at [...] More

Despite Attacks Egypt Maintains Conventional Military Strategy

Sunday’s horrific terrorist attacks on Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria during Palm Sunday services, in which dozens have been killed and many [...] More

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Sinai Peninsula

Islamic State’s Sinai Affiliate Remains a Destabilizing Force in Egypt

Islamic State’s Sinai Affiliate Remains a Destabilizing Force in Egypt

Persistent ISIS Sinai Threat Drives Israel-Egypt Cooperation

How Egypt's Policies Are Driving Support for ISIS in the Sinai

Egypt Struggles to Suppress ISIS in the Sinai

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Devastating Sinai Attack Points to ISIS

Despite Attacks Egypt Maintains Conventional Military Strategy