Tag Archives: Egypt

Six Coptic Christians and one security guard were killed and three other persons were injured during a Coptic Christmas midnight Mass in the town of Nag Hamadi, 40 miles from Luxor. The gunmen sprayed the crowd with an automatic weapon from their vehicle as Mass ended. It is suspected that the attack came as retaliation […]

Security forces detained 25 members of an al Qaeda cell led by a Palestinian and manned by Egyptians. The cell was planning to conduct attacks against shipping in the Suez Canal and oil pipelines, and received funding from overseas contributions and robberies.

Security forces detained seven cell members of a group called the Palestinian Islamic Army. The seven men were behind the February attack in a Cairo bazaar that killed a French teenager. The Egyptian Interior Ministry said the group received orders from Gaza and has links to al Qaeda.

One French woman was killed and 21 people, including Egyptian, French, German and Saudi nationals, were wounded in an explosion outside a mosque in a neighborhood in the capital city of Cairo that is popular with tourists. Anther bomb was found and defused. No group has taken responsibility for the attack.