The Islamic State – Sinai Province (IS-SP; Arabic: الدولة الإسلامية – ولاية سيناء, al-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah – Wilayah Sīnāʼ) was a branch of the terrorist...
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Zuweid Rafah On 29 January 2015, militants from the ISIL-affiliated Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Province) militant group launched a series of attacks on army and...
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Ansar Bait al-Maqdis (category Sinai Peninsula)
ABM formed an official branch of ISIL in the region, known as Wilayat Sinai, the Sinai Province of the Islamic State (or ISIL-SP). ABM or ISIL-SP was...
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wilayat (provinces): Wilayat al-Jazir (Algeria); Wilayats al-Barqah, al-Tarabulus, and al-Fizan (Libya), Wilayat Sinai (Sinai Peninsula), and Wilayat...
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Two members of the Tarabin tribe were killed while fighting Wilayat Sinai in North Sinai Governorate. 30 May – According to sources, including the Egyptian...
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new wilayats, or provinces, in Libya (Wilayah Barqah, Wilayah Tarabulus, and Wilayah Fazan), Algeria (Wilayah al-Jazair), Sinai, Egypt (Wilayah Sinai),...
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Abu Osama al-Masri (category Sinai insurgency)
Islamic State branch in the Sinai Peninsula, known as Wilayat Sinai. Abu Osama is believed to have been born in North Sinai and grew up in Sharqiya in...
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killed around 15 militants following the attack. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch claimed responsibility in a statement released later the same...
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The Sinai insurgency was an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, launched by Islamist militants against Egyptian security forces, which have also...
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crowded Friday prayer at al-Rawada. First responders were also attacked upon arrival. Islamic State Wilayat Sinai Sinai insurgency Terrorism in Egypt...
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reports that the attack appeared to be the work of Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch. On 25 November, the Egyptian public prosecutor's office, citing...
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was indirectly formed in Egypt, known as Sinai Province or Wilayat Sinai, a Sinai-based group. Wilayat Sinai is a known ally of the Sheikh Omar Hadid...
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Terrorism in Egypt (section 2004 Sinai bombing)
no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch was strongly suspected. On 25 November, the Egyptian public prosecutor's...
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Arish hotel bombing (redirect from November 2015 Sinai attack)
of parliamentary elections, held the day before. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai offshoot claimed responsibility in a statement released later the same...
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a video released by Jund al-Islam criticizing ISIL. Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai claimed to have "exterminated" the remnants of Jund al-Islam in July...
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Operation Martyr's Right (category Sinai insurgency)
September 2015. It is considered to be the largest military action in the Sinai Peninsula in months. The operation targets sites in all towns in northern...
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Islamist anti-Hamas groups in the Gaza Strip (category Sinai insurgency)
and Al-Qaeda supporters in Gaza: Liwa al-Tawhid in Gaza flirts with "Wilayat Sinai" and ISIS and challenges Hamas' influence". 20 May 2020. Abu Toameh...
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no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch was strongly suspected. On 25 November, the Egyptian public prosecutor's...
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2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant linked militant group Wilayat Sinai published a graphic propaganda video claiming responsibility and showing...
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Cameroon)[citation needed] Wilayat Barqa (in Libya) Wilayat Sinai (in the Sinai) Wilayat Khorasan (in Afghanistan and Pakistan) Wilayat Kavkaz (in the North...
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Ansar al-Sharia in Libya. Wilayat Sinai formed from the majority of the membership of Egypt's Ansar Bait al-Maqdis Wilayat Yemen formed from militants...
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Al-Haram, identified by the Egyptian army as one of the top leaders of Wilayat Sinai, was killed during an exchange of fire between him and soldiers who...
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Operation Sinai is an ongoing Egyptian military campaign, launched in early August 2012, against Islamic militants within the Sinai Peninsula to crush...
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Hesham Ashmawy (category Sinai insurgency)
the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and became Wilayat Sinai. ABM, both in Sinai and in the mainland, had consequently split between members...
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It was targeted by unknown assailants again on 7 January 2016, and Wilayat Sinai claimed responsibility. Between 2013 and 2018, the Aqaba–El Rehab section...
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war with ISIS". "Egypt: ISIS attack kills 15 security personnel in north Sinai". Retrieved 20 March 2016. "Chad troops killed in Boko Haram counter-attack"...
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Zuweid On 1 July 2015, the IS-affiliated Sinai Province militant group launched the largest scale battle the Sinai Peninsula has seen since the 1973 Yom...
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Islamic State – Somalia Province (redirect from Wilayat al Somal)
province ("Wilayat") by IS's central leadership until December 2017. Since then, it has sometimes been called Somalia Province ("Wilayat al Somal") by...
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leaders trying to flee from the city. Also, Wilayat Sinai, a group that has pledged allegiance to ISIL in the Sinai Peninsula, claimed responsibility for a...
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2016 Arish attack (category Sinai insurgency)
officers, a policeman and 10 soldiers. October 2014 Sinai attacks July 2015 Sinai attacks Sinai insurgency List of terrorist incidents, January–June...
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