Militant Incidents in Egypt (Apr. – Jun. 2013)

1. Apr. 05 – Islamic gunmen shot and killed four members of the Coptic Christian community in the village of Khosous, in the Qalyubiya governorate. Three other Christians were wounded in the attack. [Ahr & DNE]
2. Apr. 07 – Muslim thugs threw firebombs at the Coptic cathedral where funeral services for the victims of earlier religious violence were being held in the city of Qahira. Gunmen later fired shots at Christians streaming outside the cathedral. One Copt was killed and at least 24 others were wounded in the violence. [AINA, AM & AP]
3. Apr. 07 – The office of a legal advisor to the Islamist FJP party was set on fire by thugs linked to the secular opposition in the city of Dumyat. [DNE]
4. Apr. 11 – A Coptic Christian man was doused with gasoline and then burnt alive by Muslim thugs on a street in the town of Khosous, in the Qalyubiya governorate. [AP]
5. Apr. 11 – A Hungarian MFO peacekeeper was abducted by Bedouin gunmen from a bus in Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. The hostage was released later that day. [Ahr, AP & DNE]
6. Apr. 13 – Militants attacked a security checkpoint with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire near Wadi Firan, in the South Sinai governorate, sparking a brief firefight. No one was hurt in the incident. [DNE]
7. Apr. 16 – Gunmen opened fire at a police patrol in the Nakhal area of the North Sinai governorate, killing an officer and seriously injuring a colleague. [Ahr, AP & Reut]
8. Apr. 19 – Assailants threw firebombs at an office of the Islamist FJP party during riotous protests by opposition supporters in the city of Zagazig, in the Sharqiya governorate. [Ahr]
9. Apr. 26 – Thugs injured a security guard in a knife attack and threw firebombs at the entrance of the presidential palace in the Heliopolis suburb of Qahira. The incidents occurred during disturbances by opponents of the government. [Ahr & DNE]
10. May 05 – Attackers opened fire at a security checkpoint in the port of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. Nobody was hurt in the shooting. [DNE]
11. May 05 – Gunmen fired at the convoy of prime minister Hisham Qandil in the Dokki suburb of Giza. A street vendor was killed after being hit by the assailants’ vehicle. Two policemen and another bystander were wounded in the incident. The premier was not believed to have been targeted in the attack. [Ahr & DNE]
12. May 05 – A liquor trader was shot and killed by several terrorists at a bar near Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. [Ahr & Reut]
13. May 09 – An attacker stabbed and wounded an American university professor as he was standing outside his nation’s embassy in the city of Qahira. [Ahr, DNE & ToI]
14. May 10 – A Coptic Christian man was shot dead by Muslim gunmen after he had defaced a poster of an anti-sectarian movement in the village of Deir Pasha, in the Minya governorate. [Ahr]
15. May 10 – Assailants threw several firebombs at the interior ministry headquarters in central Qahira. The incident occurred during riots by opposition supporters. [Ahr]
16. May 13 – Thugs linked to the Muslim Brotherhood assaulted and wounded several opposition activists who were collecting signatures of a petition against president Morsi in the Helwan suburb of Qahira. [Ahr]
17. May 16 – Six policemen and a border guard were abducted when Islamist militants intercepted their vehicles east of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. The hostages were released six days later. The TRaS was suspected in the incident. [AFP, Ahr, AP, DNE, MENA & Reut]
18. May 17 – Militants sprayed gunfire at a police base in Rafah, in the North Sinai governorate. No one was hurt in the attack. [AM]
19. May 20 – A group of terrorists opened fire at a police post in the city of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate, sparking a gun battle. Nobody was injured in the incident. [Ahr, DNE & Reut]
20. May 20 – The border crossing point of Ouja, in the North Sinai governorate, came under fire from militants. No casualties were reported in the attack. [DNE]
21. May 21 – Gunmen fired at soldiers during operations by Egyptian security forces in the North Sinai governorate, sparking clashes in which one of the assailants was eliminated. [Ahr & Reut]
22. Jun. 07 – Unidentified assailants firebombed the nationalist Tamarod activist organization’s headquarters in the city of Qahira. [Ahr & DNE]
23. Jun. 08 – A secular opposition activist was stabbed and wounded by thugs as he was collecting signatures for a petition against president Morsi in the Qalyubiya governorate. [Ahr]
24. Jun. 08 – An activist was stabbed and injured by Muslim Brotherhood thugs while collecting autographs for an anti-Morsi petition in the city of Iskandariya. [DNE]
25. Jun. 09 – Militants shot and killed a policeman as he was driving his car in the town of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. One of the attackers was shot dead by the officer before he died. [Ahr, AP & DNE]
26. Jun. 16 – A gunman shot and wounded a supporter of the Islamist FJP party during disturbances in the city of Fayoum. The victim succumbed to his injuries six days later. [Ahr]
27. Jun. 16 – Assailants belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood assaulted activists collecting signatures for a petition against president Morsi in the city of Fayoum. One of the activists was hurt in the incident. [Ahr]
28. Jun. 18 – Thugs linked to the secular opposition hurled firebombs at the residence of the provincial governor and set fire to his car in Kafr el-Sheikh. [Ahr]
29. Jun. 18 – An office of the Islamist FJP party was firebombed by a group of thugs in the city of Tanta, in the Gharbiya governorate. [Ahr]
30. Jun. 21 – Unidentified assailants ransacked and torched the headquarters of the Islamist HMQ party in Giza‘s Warak suburb. [DNE]
31. Jun. 22 – A member of a socialist activist organization was assaulted and seriously wounded by thugs in Fowa, in the Kafr el-Sheikh governorate. [Ahr]
32. Jun. 22 – Thugs linked to the secular opposition ransacked and burnt an office of the Salafi Nour party in Mahalla, in the Gharbiya governorate. [Ahr]
33. Jun. 22 – A group of assailants set fire to shops owned by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Kafr el-Sheikh. [Ahr]
34. Jun. 23 – Two policemen were briefly abducted by unidentified gunmen near Sante Catarin, in the South Sinai governorate. [Ahr]
35. Jun. 23 – A mob of approximately 3,000 Salafi Sunni Muslim thugs raided a house where members of the Shi’ite community had gathered in the village of Zawiyat Abu Muslim, in the Giza governorate, killing four people in assaults and knife attacks. The dead bodies were dragged through the streets by the attackers. Approximately thirty other Shi’ites were wounded in the attack. The assailants also burnt five houses of the community. [AFP, Ahr, AP, DNE & Reut]
36. Jun. 24 – A group of militants opened fire at a police station in the Ahrash area of the North Sinai governorate, sparking gun battles. There were no reports of casualties. [AM]
37. Jun. 24 – Five activists were hurt when Muslim Brotherhood thugs assaulted them while collecting signatures for a petition against president Morsi in the city of Fayoum. [DNE]
38. Jun. 26 – A journalist was abducted by unidentified assailants during disturbances in the city of Mansoura, in the Dakahliya governorate. The victim was tortured and seriously injured by his captors before he was released the next day. [DNE]
39. Jun. 27 – An apartment building owned by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and an electricity generator were burnt by thugs linked to the secular opposition in Mahalla, in the Gharbiya governorate. [Ahr]
40. Jun. 27 – Gunmen sprayed gunfire at an office of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Zagazig, in the Sharqiya governorate, killing an activist and wounding four others. [Ahr & Reut]
41. Jun. 28 – Bands of liberal opposition thugs attacked and burnt an office of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Iskandariya. An American student filming the incident was stabbed to death by the assailants. [Ahr & Reut]
42. Jun. 28 – A newspaper reporter was killed and fifteen other people were wounded when a bomb exploded at the venue of a protest rally by liberal opposition activists in the city of Bur Said. [Ahr, DNE & Reut]
43. Jun. 28 – A group of thugs set fire to an office of the Islamist FJP party in the city of Mansoura, in the Dakahliya governorate. [Ahr]
44. Jun. 28 – An office of the Muslim Brotherhood was attacked by thugs affiliated to the liberal opposition in the city of Bur Said. [Reut]
45. Jun. 29 – A police chief was killed when gunmen raked his car with gunfire in the town of Arish, in the North Sinai governorate. The officer’s driver was seriously wounded in the attack. [Ahr, DNE & Reut]
46. Jun. 29 – Gunmen fired at an army checkpoint in Goura, in the North Sinai governorate. One of the assailants was eliminated in retaliatory gunfire. [DNE]
47. Jun. 30 – Motorcycle-borne gunmen opened fire at liberal demonstrators who had congregated outside a local government office in the city of Asiyut, killing three of the protestors and injuring eight others. The incident was attributed to Islamic militants. [Ahr & AP]
48. Jun. 30 – Approximately thirty gunmen fired at a demonstration by secular opposition activists in the city of Beni Suef, injuring a child. [Ahr]
49. Jun. 30 – Thugs hurled firebombs at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Qahira. The incident occurred during rowdy demonstrations by secular opposition protesters [Ahr & Reut]
50. Jun. 30 – Assailants affiliated with the secular opposition firebombed an office of the Islamist FJP party in Beni Suef. No one was hurt in the incident. [Ahr]

AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), Ahr: Ahram (Egypt), AINA: Assyrian International News Agency (America), AM: Aswat Masriya (Egypt), AP: Associated Press (America), CNN: Cable News Network (America), DNE: Daily News Egypt (Egypt), EOHR: Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (Egypt), HRW: Human Rights Watch (America), IKC: Ibn Khaldoun Center (Egypt), MENA: Middle East News Agency (Egypt), Reut: Reuters (Britain), State Information Service (Egypt), ToI: Times of Israel (Israel)