CAIRO, Egypt—An attacker wounded six female tourists when he attacked them with a knife on a beach in Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Friday, the interior ministry said. In January 2016, three tourists in Hurghada were wounded in a stabbing attack by two assailants with apparent Islamic State group sympathies. An Islamic State group bombing of a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a south Sinai resort in 2015 killed all 224 people on board and decimated the country’s tourism sector. Saudi Arabia has long expressed concern about Shiite Iran’s “interference” in the region, including through Iraq’s paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi which has played a major role in fighting IS. Saudi Arabia cut ties with Iran in early 2016 after years of strained relations.

Source: The Standard July 15, 2017 11:48 UTC