On this day in 2016, Islamic State in the Sinai claimed the shooting of a Coptic Christian priest in the Egyptian city of Arish, claiming the cleric was a ‘warrior against Islam’.
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The Sinai branch of ISIS carried out two suicide attacks on Christian worshipers on Palm Sunday killing 37 people and wounding 136
Terrorists attack tourist resorts for obvious reasons: it is a way to target Westerners and undermine a nation’s economy.
On this day in 2017, attackers bombed a mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed in North Sinai before opening fire on fleeing worshipers.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed truck into the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad on Nov. 19, 1995, killing 15 people, including the second secretary of the embassy and three Egyptian security guards.
Yesterday the world was forced to face yet again the possible spectre of terrorism. An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo suddenly plummeted into the Mediterranean near the border between Greek and Egyptian airspace, after having taken some unexpected turns. The cause of the accident remains unclear. I have long argued against what I call […]
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When will Egypt learn?
Tackling terrorism is not easy. There are a lot of tools, some soft and some hard and some in between. Relying on any one in particular is unlikely to work. For the record, I am not soft on terrorism or terrorists. When our government agencies identify individuals who subscribe to a violent ideology and who […]
Intelligence agencies are expected to never make mistakes: why is this the only profession subject to such an impossible standard?
Journalists reporting from zones where terrorism is rampant are an important source of information: a conversation with a BBC reporter.
The Canadian government appears to be incapable of making good decisions on where to buy sensitive technology, electing to deal with countries which are not our friends