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People gather near the scene where a bomb exploded early Thursday, August 20, 2015, near a national security building in the Shubra el-Kheima neighborhood of Cairo.

At least 23 people, including six policemen, were injured on Thursday in a blast in Egypt.

The driver fled on a motorcycle before the explosion, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

“A man suddenly stopped his vehicle in front of the state security building, jumped out of it and fled on a motorbike that followed the auto”, authorities reportedly said in a statement.

Egypt’s interior ministry said that a auto had exploded outside the police building, which houses a centre for investigating threats to national security, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Its homegrown status likely makes it more attentive to local sentiment. Wrecked...

A wide crater was left behind by the blast near the four-storey concrete building. Of those hurt, 11 were police and soldiers. No deaths were reported.

Egypt spent US$8 billion on the canal extension, which was completed two years ahead of schedule. The construction of the new waterway, which runs alongside most of the existing canal, began less than a year ago. Numerous container ships sailed through as part of the trial,...

The attack follows a decision by the government to extend the state of emergency in the region.

Egypt is battling an increasingly brazen insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula that has killed hundreds of police officers and soldiers since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

Egypt’s military killed 241 militants in the Sinai from July 1-5, including ISIL militants who launched spectacular attacks last week.

Egypt has been fighting a jihadist insurgency in Sinai since the army, then led by Sisi, overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

The military spokesman said 21 soldiers and more than 100 militants were killed in the attacks and ensuing clashes, after security officials said dozens more soldiers had been killed.

And in Gaza, militants who support ISIS in the Sinai Peninsula have been staging small attacks against Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The skirmish between the Egyptian military and the Islamic State is the most recent in a long series of battles that have plagued the Sinai, which had witnessed the heaviest and most intense fighting in recent years, reports Arutz Sheva. In Jordan, like in Egypt, it is likely...

Israel has strongly resisted allegations its troops violated global law, claims that could have serious implications after Palestinians joined the global Criminal Court, where they are pursuing war crimes charges against Israel.