The Islamic State franchise Sinai Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a Cairo courthouse as the Egyptian government continues to grapple with an insurgency that has targeted the legal system, police, and military.
The Egyptian branch of ISIS hit an Egyptian naval vessel with a missile, the latest in a string of successful attacks in that past month that include killing the country's top legal official and seizing control of an entire town.
The Egyptian military has killed at least 63 militants in an effort to regain control of a Sinai town that was overrun by insurgents just days after the successful assassination of the country's highest ranking legal official.
The Egyptian insurgency against the dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has taken a dramatic turn with the assassination of the country's attorney general, Hisham Barakat.
Egypt postponed the decision on a death sentence for Muhamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president, as the government arrested two other leaders of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.
Three Egyptian judges were killed after news broke that the deposed, democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi would be sentenced to death by the military government.
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to three years in prison for corruption charges in an effort to legitimize the military dictatorship of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whose regime has killed thousands of protesters.
Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula by Islamist militants have left more than 20 people dead.
An Egyptian court has dropped all the remaining charges against the former dictator Hosni Mubarak, completing the rollback of the gains made during the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
The Egyptian government has announced plans to build a second channel in the Suez Canal alongside the existing one.
