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Egyptian security forces arrest suspected militants after a firefight at the al-Goura settlement in Egypt's north Sinai region, about 15 km (10 miles) from the border with Israel, 11 August 2012. Egyptian troops killed as many as six Islamist militants after storming their hideout at the settlement near the isolated border with Israel on Sunday, security sources and eyewitnesses said.
Authorities arrest 15 suspected militants in North Sinai
Egypt Independent
MENA
02 Apr 2013
The Armed Forces arrested 15 people on Tuesday accused of being members of a militant group that illegally brandished...
An Egyptian army vehicle keeps its position close to the Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip
Armed militants demonstrate through North Sinai towns
Al-Masry Al-Youm 31 Mar 2013
Militants belonging to various extremist religious groups paraded the streets of two North Sinai towns Sunday, driving...
Martyrs' relatives bewailing during a funeral for soldiers, who were killed during an attack at a checkpoint along the Sinai border with Israel by unknown gunmen, near the tomb of the late former President Anwar al-Sadat and the Unknown Soldier monument in Cairo August 7, 2012. Egypt began work to seal off smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a security source said, two days after gunmen shot dead 16 Egyptian border guards in an attack blamed partly on Palestinian jihadi militants.
Lawyer accuses Hamas of masterminding murder of 16 Egyptian soldiers
Al-Masry Al-Youm 14 Mar 2013
An Egyptian lawyer has accused the Hamas government in Gaza of masterminding the murder of 16 Egyptian border guards...
Mokhtar Belmokhtar, identified by the Algerian interior ministry as the leader of a militant Islamic group, is pictured in a screen capture from an undated video distributed by the Belmokhtar Brigade obtained by Reuters on 16 January 2013. 
Many dead at site of Algerian kidnapping
Reuters 17 Jan 2013
Many people were killed when Algerian forces opened fire on a vehicle at a remote gas plant where gunmen were holding...
French soldiers leave a hangar at the Malian army air base in Bamako on 14 January 2013. France, which has poured hundreds of troops into the capital Bamako in recent days, carried out more air raids on Monday in the vast desert area seized last year by an Islamist alliance grouping Al-Qaeda's north African wing AQIM alongside Mali's home-grown MUJWA and Ansar Dine militant groups. 
Salafis to protest French intervention in Mali
Al-Masry Al-Youm 17 Jan 2013
The Salafi Jihadi Movement is planning on Friday to protest outside the French Embassy in Cairo against the country...
تعزيزات أمنية أثناء النظر في جلسة محاكمة أمين الشرطة، المتهم بقتل وإصابة متظاهرين في الشرابية والزاوية الحمراء, خلال ثورة 25 يناير، بمحكمة جنايات القاهرة، القاهرة الجديدة، حلوان، 22 مايو 2011. قررت المحكمة غيابيا، إحالة أوراق أمين الشرطة، المتهم بقتل 18 متظاهرًا وإصابة 3 آخرين في الشرابية والزاوية الحمراء خلال الثورة إلى المفتي، لاستطلاع رأيه الشرعي في إعدام المتهم، وحددت المحكمة جلسة 26 يونيو المقبل للنطق بالحكم.
Update: Suspected militants, police officers killed during Assiut shootout
Al-Masry Al-Youm 17 Jan 2013
Eight suspected militants and two police officers were killed Thursday morning when police attempted to apprehend them...
Military denies reports of halted crackdown on Sinai militants
Egypt Independent 06 Jan 2013
The Armed Forces denied reports that it halted its operation against militants in Sinai, vowing to never negotiate with...
Two members of the Taliban stand on a hill in Wardak, West of Kabul, 2008.
US drone strike kills Taliban commander, sources say
Reuters 03 Jan 2013
A US drone strike killed a Taliban commander, his deputy and eight others in northwest Pakistan, intelligence sources...
An Egyptian soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Rafah city on the Egyptian border, 6 August 2012. Islamist gunmen killed at least 15 Egyptian police on Sunday and seized two military vehicles to attack a crossing point into Israel, the deadliest incident in Egypt's tense Sinai border region in decades.
Sinai security forces attacked for second time in 24 hours
Al-Masry Al-Youm 12 Nov 2012
Militants fired on a Central Security Forces camp in Arish, North Sinai Monday morning, fleeing into the desert when...
US Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens visits Misrata in July. (Photo courtesy US Embassy in Tripoli)
Libya attack may have been planned, US officials say
Reuters 12 Sep 2012
WASHINGTON — The attack that killed the US ambassador and three other American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya...