The Latest: Countries warned of dangers flying over Sinai

In this photo made available Monday, Nov. 2, 2015, and provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military experts examine a piece of an engine at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015. The Russian cargo plane on Monday brought the first bodies of Russian victims killed in a plane crash in Egypt home to St. Petersburg, a city awash in grief for its missing residents. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP)

PM: Sinai bloodbath a sign terrorism ‘knocking on Israel’s borders’

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visit Israeli soldier Liron Israeli, who was injured when stabbed by a Palestinian woman, at the Hadassah Hospital on July 1, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Israel and Washington offer condolences to Egypt over coordinated attack that kills over 70 soldiers

Middle East Updates / Amnesty: 1,165 forcibly evicted from northern Sinai

Smoke rises as a house is blown up during a military operation by Egyptian security forces in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with southern Gaza Strip November 6, 2014.   Photo by Reuters

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Egypt closes schools in Sinai towns as area inches toward open war

Smoke rises as a house is blown up during a military operation by Egyptian security forces in the Egyptian city of Rafah, near the border with southern Gaza Strip November 3, 2014. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Smuggling between Sinai and Gaza still thriving

A Palestinian worker inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, in February 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

One Bedouin guide claims that there are 500 tunnels that can shuttle weapons, goods, building materials and people into Strip