The FBI has identified the two men seen on surveillance camera taking a suitcase that had held one of the explosive devices that failed to detonate earlier this month in Manhattan, according to law enforcement officials.
Israel has conducted numerous drone strikes against terrorists in Egyptian territory in recent years, Bloomberg quoted a former senior Israeli official as saying on Monday.
Egypt’s foreign minister is meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday for the first such visit to Israel in nearly a decade that is the latest sign of warming ties.
Israel has seen “unprecedented” intelligence cooperation with Egypt and Jordan as the countries’ fight against the Islamic State group nudge them to work together more closely, Israel’s deputy military chief said Wednesday.
A senior source at the Egyptian forensics authority on Saturday revealed that 28-year-old Giulio Regeni, an Italian student found dead in Cairo last week, was tortured to death in a highly unusual and disturbing manner.
Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on tourists as they boarded a bus in Cairo on Thursday but there were no casualties, security sources said.
Many have been puzzled at the way in which Arab members of the US-led coalition bombing Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq have quietly been ending their involvement, even as the West escalates its own.
Israeli Bedouin Ouda Tarabin, who has been imprisoned in Egypt for 15 years on suspicion of spying for Israel, has finished serving his term and was returned to Israel on Thursday morning.
Salman Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” opens with the explosion of an airliner named Bostan, a Farsi word that refers to the Garden of Eden.
The United States’ near-certainty that an on-board bomb blew up a Russian airliner over Sinai recently is based in part on Israeli intelligence, CNN reported Sunday.