Emergency In Sinai

A bomb explosion killed an Egyptian colonel and three soldiers in North Sinai on Wednesday as their armoured vehicle passed by, security officials and emergency services said.

David H. Newman is an emergency room doctor at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital and an Iraq war veteran. The 45-year-old physician has edited online medical publications, taught at elite medical schools and been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on PBS.

Some 11,000 Russian tourists have returned home from Egypt in the past 24 hours after Moscow suspended flights to the country over the Sinai plane crash, an official said today.

Egypt extended a state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula for three months, as a roadside bomb wounded 18 policemen today in the insurgency-wracked region, security officials said.

Egypt announced on Saturday it was extending for three months a state of emergency in parts of the restive Sinai Peninsula following a spate of attacks claimed by jihadists.

A shadowy Islamist militant group based in the remote Sinai desert is emerging as a major threat to Egypt's stability, and there are no signs that the army-backed government has devised an effective strategy to contain it.

A bomb explosion killed an Egyptian colonel and three soldiers in North Sinai on Wednesday as their armoured vehicle passed by, security officials and emergency services said.

David H. Newman is an emergency room doctor at New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital and an Iraq war veteran. The 45-year-old physician has edited online medical publications, taught at elite medical schools and been featured in the Wall Street Journal and on PBS.

Some 11,000 Russian tourists have returned home from Egypt in the past 24 hours after Moscow suspended flights to the country over the Sinai plane crash, an official said today.

Egypt extended a state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula for three months, as a roadside bomb wounded 18 policemen today in the insurgency-wracked region, security officials said.

Egypt announced on Saturday it was extending for three months a state of emergency in parts of the restive Sinai Peninsula following a spate of attacks claimed by jihadists.

A shadowy Islamist militant group based in the remote Sinai desert is emerging as a major threat to Egypt's stability, and there are no signs that the army-backed government has devised an effective strategy to contain it.