Seen from above, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is a dun-colored triangle of desert, a vast wedge that splits Asia from Africa. Move in closer, and the desert resolves into a landscape of high peaks and ...

* Most Bedouin scratch a living from farms, others smuggle * Frustration, neglect draws some to militant Islam * Authorities toughen security to clamp down on tunnels By Yasmine Saleh SHEIKH ZOWAYED, ...

* Interior minister warns against Sinai instability * Bedouins say delegates do not represent them * Bedouins complain of government neglect ISMAILIA, Egypt, June 29 (Reuters) - Egypt's interior ...

ABU ZENIMA, Egypt — Amid a stunning vista of desert mountains, a Bedouin woman, Umm Yasser, paused to point out a local plant, and she began to explain how it was used in medicine to the group of ...

CAIRO (AP) – In Egypt’s restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen by creating a local security force in the ...

ABU ZENIMA, Egypt — As Umm Yasser reeled off her household chores — collect wood, cook, make bread, shepherd goats — she stopped to say why she decided to also lead trail hikes through the mountains ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt, March 19 (Reuters) - Two Brazilian tourists kidnapped by Bedouin tribesmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula have been released after negotiations with the Egyptian military, a security ...

Mourad Mwafi has been in charge of North Sinai, Egypt’s eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf ...

CAIRO (AP) -- In Egypt's restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen by creating a local security force in the ...

Amid a stunning vista of desert mountains, a Bedouin woman, Umm Yasser, paused to point out a local plant, and she began to explain how it was used in medicine to the group of foreign tourists she was ...

CAIRO (AP) — In Egypt’s restive Sinai, Bedouin leaders are pushing to take matters in their own hands and urging the government to arm their tribesmen by creating a local security force in the ...