The guard said the mission will be "promoting international peace and security within the Sinai Peninsula region." ...

Unrest in the Sinai is nothing new. During the political and civil unrest that followed Egypt's revolution in 2011, the Sinai Peninsula became a base for militant activity.

With desert in the north and mountains in the south, the Sinai Peninsula is very difficult to control. CNN’s Ian Lee and Frederik Pleitgen contributed to this report.

For the past two and a half years, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has been dogged by turmoil amid a wave of militant attacks on security forces stationed in the area. Located in northeastern Egypt, the ...

Official population estimates for the Sinai Peninsula vary widely, but local tribal leaders believe that in South Sinai there are roughly 1,500 Tarabin, 50,000 Muzeina and 5,000 Jebeleya people.

Dozens of trucks carrying humanitarian aid in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula started to move towards the Kerem Shalom crossing for ...

With ISIS on the rise in the Sinai Peninsula, the Pentagon is having internal discussions to consider whether U.S. troops stationed there could be used to gather intelligence about the local ISIS ...

During a visit to the Egyptian governorate of North Sinai on Aug. 10, I watched as scores of pickup trucks, packed with hard-line Islamists waving the black flags associated with al-Qaeda, poured ...

More than 300 people are dead after an attack on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Sahar Aziz of Rutgers Law School about why militants would attack a Sufi mosque.

The Sinai Peninsula, while a part of Egypt, exists in a world of its own. Robert Siegel speaks with reporter Nicolas Pelham about his new article in the New York Review of Books about the Sinai ...

Unrest in the Sinai is nothing new. During the political and civil unrest that followed Egypt's revolution in 2011, the Sinai Peninsula became a base for militant activity.