Egypt has deployed forces to the Sinai Peninsula several times since the start of this year without prior coordination with Israel. The violation of the two countries’ peace treaty was confirmed to The Tower by Israeli security officials. In other cases, according to Israeli security sources, Cairo has “coordinated” troop...

The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday unanimously passed along to the floor a resolution affirming U.S. support for Israel in the event Israel has to militarily take action to degrade Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. According to the text of the resolution on the U.S. Congress’ website, the goal of the resolution...

Rockets fired from the Sinai Peninsula slammed into Israel today and were claimed by a jihadi Salafist group operating in the territory. Hard-line Islamist groups have increasingly infiltrated the Sinai Peninsula since the 2011 overthrow of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Most of the rockets were fired from Sinai, which has become increasingly...

Israel and Cyprus will hold joint military exercises in the Mediterranean Sea later this month. The exercise will focus on search and rescue operations and on protecting the two countries’ natural gas assets: The Ministry of Defense in Cyprus announced that in the context of the cooperation between the Republic...

A NATO initiative to bring together Israel and six Arab states situated along the Mediterranean has been scrapped after Turkey and Egypt raised objections. Turkish diplomats scrambled to deny that their moves had anything to do with ongoing anti-Israel diplomacy being conducted by the Islamist Justice and Development party of...

Slowly, quietly, the new divided Egypt – divided between the Muslim Brotherhood and its opponents – is changing the space where Egypt meets the Gaza Strip. While the smuggling of goods through the Rafah tunnels has begun returning to its old patterns, the scope of that smuggling has dropped off...