The recent death of five army troops in the Sinai Peninsula is giving rise to fears from a possible revival of the local Islamic State branch, given growing IS activities in other countries.
Egypt seizes Brotherhood property in Sinai An Egyptian court is examining a lawsuit that will ease the state s confiscation of Muslim Brotherhood-owned real estate in Sinai. A relative of police officer Ibrahem Nasr, who was killed in an attack on two buses packed with Egyptian policemen near the border town of Rafah, in northern Sinai the previous day, points to graffiti on the wall of his home that reads in Arabic: The Muslim Brotherhood are killers, terrorism of the Muslim Brotherhood, in Kafr el-Sawalmiya village in the Egyptian Delta region of Menufiya, Aug. 20, 2013. - MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP via Getty Images