In July 2013, at the same time as mass protests began against the 3 July coup d'état which deposed Mohamed Morsi, and in parallel with the escalation of the already ongoing jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants started violent attacks against policemen and soldiers in central and western Egypt. In the following months, new Islamist armed groups were created to reinstate Islamist rule in Egypt, such as Soldiers of Egypt and the Popular Resistance Movement. Since 2013, violence in mainland Egypt has escalated and developed into a low-level Islamist insurgency against the Egyptian government.
In July 2013, at the same time as mass protests began against the 3 July coup d'état which deposed Mohamed Morsi, and in parallel with the escalation of the already ongoing jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, pro-Muslim Brotherhood militants started violent attacks against policemen and soldiers in central and western Egypt. In the following months, new Islamist armed groups were created to reinstate Islamist rule in Egypt, such as Soldiers of Egypt and the Popular Resistance Movement. Since 2013, violence in mainland Egypt has escalated and developed into a low-level Islamist insurgency against the Egyptian government.
Chronology
Some of the main attacks and arrests are described by year:
2013
23 July 2013 – an explosive device killed 1 and injured 19 at a police station in Mansoura.
5 October 2013 – gunmen shot dead 6 soldiers near the Suez Canal city of Ismailiya.
28 October 2013 – assailants killed 3 policemen who were posted near the University of Mansura in Egypt's Nile Delta region.
24 December 2013 – a bomb exploded in Mansoura, targeting the security directorate building, killing 16 and injuring 150.
2014
23 to 26 January 2014 – a bombing wave occurs with 13 victims.
15 March 2014 – 6 soldiers were killed by bombs at a checkpoint.
19 March 2014 – a senior official was killed as well as two members of Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis
19 July 2014 – the July 2014 Al-Wadi Al-Gedid attack killed 25 people.
5 August 2014 – 7 people were killed.
14 September 2014 – 7 high-profile militants were killed by security forces in Suez area.
2015
6 March 2015 – 3 policemen were killed in Mahalla.
15 April 2015 – 3 military cadets were killed in a bomb attack.
24 April 2015 – 4 Muslim brotherhood members were killed by their explosives.
9 May 2015 – 4 dead in an exchange of fire between police and members of Muslim brotherhood.
29 June 2015 – A top prosecutor was killed by explosives in his car.
1 July 2015 – 9 militants were killed by police in Giza.
11 July 2015 – A car bomb exploded outside the Italian consulate in the Egyptian capital Cairo resulting in at least 1 death and 4 people injured, responsibility was claimed by IS.
17 July 2015 – 6 persons were killed during clashes in Cairo.
6 August 2015 – 5 Muslim brotherhood members were shot dead in Fayoum province.
24 August 2015 – A bus bombing kills 3 policemen and wounds 33 others.
21 September 2015 – Police kill 10 militants in Bahariya Oasis and following a mistake attack of 12 people including Mexican tourists.
25 September 2015 – 9 militants were killed following the bombing of the Italian consulate in Cairo.
31 October 2015 – Metrojet Flight 9268 was bombed up by the Egyptian sector of the Islamic State while flying from Egypt to Russia. The bombing killed all 224 people on board.
2016
8 January 2016 – 2 militants armed with a melee weapon and a signal flare, arrived by sea and stormed Bella Vista Hotel in the Red Sea city of Hurghada, stabbing three foreign tourists from Sweden and Austria. One of the assailants was shot dead and the other was wounded by security forces.
21 January 2016 – 9 people including six policemen, and ten others were wounded in Giza when, after raiding an Islamic State hideout, a bomb detonated.
29 September 2016 – A car exploded after the passage of the general prosecutor car. One civilian was wounded.
28 October 2016 – A bomb killed one and another were wounded. The explosion occurred in Cairo.
19 November 2016 – in Cairo one child was killed and another was injured when an improvised explosive device detonated in an apartment in Cairo's Manshiyet Nasser district.
9 December 2016 -
A civilian died and another 3 were injured in bombing attack in Kafr El Sheikh.
6 police officers and a civilian were killed in a bombing near a checkpoint in the Egyptian capital. 3 additional officers and 4 civilians were wounded by the blast. The Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for the attack.
11 December 2016 – At least 25 people were killed and 49 injured after a suicide bombing at a Coptic cathedral in Cairo.
12 December 2016 – A military vehicle struck a roadside bomb during a security swoop in North Sinai's city of Sheikh Zuweid, killing four soldiers. IS claimed responsibility for the attack.
2017
6 January 2017 – Two Egyptian Coptic Christians were murdered. They were murdered because of their faith, according to the brother of the dead woman.
16 January 2017 – Eight Egyptian security officers were killed and 3 others were injured when their checkpoint about 70 km away from the Kharga Oasis was attacked by unidentified militants. At least two of the assailants were killed, while the others escaped.
1 April 2017 – A booby-trapped motorbike exploded outside a police training center, killing one police officer and injuring 12 others, as well as 3 civilians.
9 April 2017 – 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings
At least 45 people were killed and at least 126 were injured in an explosion in a Coptic Church in Tanta, Egypt. Initial investigations show the terrorist blew himself up during the church's Palm Sunday services, causing mass destruction at the scene.
Near a police station in Tanta, there was also an attack.
A suicide bomber has detonated an explosion outside Saint Mark's Church in Alexandria's Manshyia district. Casualties were reported.
There was also an explosion in Chouhada Street in Alexandria.
1 May 2017 – A police convoy that was in the Nasr City area of Cairo were attacked after gunmen in two vehicles opened fire. The attack killed three police officers and wounded five.
26 May 2017 – 2017 Minya attack 28 people have been killed and 25 wounded after gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt.
1 June 2017 – Three soldiers and one Egyptian army officer were killed in a bomb blast near El-Bawiti in Egypt's Western Desert, the army confirmed in a statement.
18 June 2017 – An Egyptian policeman was killed and four wounded by a roadside explosive near the Cairo suburb of Maadi.
7 July 2017 – Rafah terror attack
7 July 2017 – An Egyptian national security officer was shot dead on Friday by gunmen in the Qalyubiyya Governorate.
14 July 2017 -
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian security checkpoint, killing five policemen in an area just south of the capital.
2017 Hurghada attack: Two German tourists and a Czech citizen, who succumbed to her wounds on 27 July 2017 in a hospital in Cairo, were killed and three other tourists were injured when a knifeman attacked a holiday resort in Hurghada. The attacker communicated with the Islamic State via Internet and was given the task of attacking foreign tourists on Hurghada beaches by the group.
3 August 2017 – A policeman and a civilian were killed and three people wounded in an attack on a patrol in Esna, south of Luxor.
8 August 2017 – A group of gunmen killed two police officers and wounded another in a village north of Cairo.
2 October 2017 – Egypt's Interior Ministry announced that the police had killed three suspected militants in a shootout in a southern Cairo suburb. The gunfire exchange took place at a cemetery under construction in 15 May City, a district south of Cairo, as security forces were trying to arrest them. Rifles and ammunition were found at the scene.
20 October 2017 – Official Ministry of Interior of Egypt listed 16 police officer deaths, 15 injured and one missing as well as 15 killed or injured terrorists. Reuters and BBC published that 52 policemen were killed; including 23 officers according to Reuters, and 18 according to BBC based on unidentified security sources. This was rebuked State Information service of Egypt.
24 November 2017 – The 2017 Sinai mosque attack occurred when a group of gunmen from the Islamic State – Sinai Province entered a mosque in the northern Sinai and killed 311 people and injured 128 others. It is currently the deadliest terrorist attack in Egyptian soil.
29 December 2017 – 2017 Saint Menas church attack 11 people have died in twin attacks on Coptic Christians in the southern Cairo: eight civilians and a police officer were killed in a shooting outside a church, and two civilians were killed in a Coptic-owned shop beforehand. One attacker was killed by the police.
2018
1 January 2018 – Two Egyptian Christians were shot dead by a gunman as they celebrated the New Year at a liquor store.
24 March 2018 – A bomb placed under a car exploded in Egypt's second-largest city Alexandria, killing two people, including a policeman. The bombing, which wounded five others, targeted Alexandria's security chief.
2 November 2018 – 2018 Minya bus attack: At least eight Christian Copts were killed and 13 injured when gunmen opened fire on them when they were travelling by bus from the city of Sohag to St. Samuel's monastery, Islamic State claimed responsibility.