Sinai

3,000-year-old New Kingdom stronghold found at Tell al-Kharouba, Northern Sinai

Archaeologists unearthed a 105-meter southern wall with a side entrance, an internal 75-meter zigzag barrier and eleven towers, revealing sophisticated ancient Egyptian border defenses.

3,000-year-old New Kingdom stronghold found at Tell al-Kharouba, Northern Sinai.
 The scene of a car crash near Lido junction, May 27, 2023.

Three Qatari Foreign Ministry employees die in Sinai car crash

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, August 13, 2025.

Ibrahim Al-Arjani: The new threat to Israel's southern border - opinion

Smoke rises in Egypt's North Sinai as seen from the border of the southern Gaza Strip with Egyp, on July 2, 2015.

Egypt's military posture in Sinai and what it means for Israel - analysis


Egypt discovers copper workshop, admin buildings, and observation points at Wadi al-Nasb

Excavations revealed architectural and industrial evidence confirming continuous Egyptian mining activity at Wadi al-Nasb from the Old Kingdom through the Late Period, officials said.

The newly uncovered site at Wadi al-Nasb.

The holy site where Moses received the Ten Commandments faces its biggest threat in centuries

Cable car, luxury hotels, and shopping bazaars planned for Mount Sinai region as local Bedouin communities report home demolitions.

St. Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai.

Stop leaving Egypt out of the conversation on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis - opinion

Egypt remains absent from any serious discussion of solutions on any humanitarian issues seen in the Gaza Strip.

 A truck crosses from Gaza to Egypt, at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the Israel-Hamas war, in Rafah, Egypt

Egypt to reinforce military forces along Gaza border, Arab media reports

This includes approximately 40,000 soldiers, air defense systems, and tanks being deployed to the area, according to the report.

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, August 13, 2025.

Egypt-Israel security ties and Sinai’s double-edged role - opinion

The Sinai Peninsula is a vulnerable front and a strategic concern for Egypt, particularly during the Israel-Hamas War.

AN EGYPTIAN military outpost at the Israel-Egypt border as seen from southern Israel, 2021: For the Egyptian public and government, Sinai is not just a geographic zone but a perpetual strategic concern, says the writer.

Drones increasingly being used to smuggle items from Sinai to Gaza - report

The context surrounding the smuggling into Gaza, however, may not be a surprise.

 Sunrise is seen from the summit of Mount Sinai in Egypt.

‘This is from Moses’: Newly imaged Sinai inscriptions revive Exodus-era alphabet debate

High-resolution photography at the turquoise mines of Serabit el-Khadem in Egypt’s south-central Sinai Peninsula highlighted faint letters that one epigrapher reads as “This is from Moses.”

 Cylinders found at Tel Um el-Marra, Syria.

Travel expert on whether to return to Israel via Jordan or Sinai - opinion

If you are fortunate to get a flight into Agaba, the Jordanian border city across from Eilat, allows you to jump in a Jordanian taxi for the ten-minute drive to Taba.

 EL AL flight at Ben Gurion International Airport, May 13, 2025.

Israelis shouldn't enter country through Jordan, Egypt's Sinai borders, NSC says

Private initiatives have emerged to help Israelis trapped abroad to enter the locked-down country through Jordan and the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.

 People cross to Egypt through the Taba Border Crossing, during the summer holiday, in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, August 6, 2023

The forgotten courage of Sinai helps us find holiness within mystery - opinion

Revelation does not begin with mastery. It begins with mystery.

MOSES ON Mount Sinai as depicted by Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1895.

Israel facing dangerous shift in relations with Egypt - opinion

While Egypt has not formally renounced the Camp David Accords, Cairo is effectively distancing itself from the treaty.

Armoured Israeli military vehicle driving along border with Egypt