Egypt

At least there major airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa and Air France, announced that they will stop flying over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula after the Russian commercial plane crashed there killing all 224 passengers and crew.

An Islamic State affiliate group operating in Egypt has claimed responsibility for the airplane crash of Russian passenger Airbus 321 belonging to Kogalymavia airlines in the Sinai peninsula. Islamic militants, waging an insurgency in the area, released a statement:

“The soldiers of the caliphate succeeded in bringing down a Russian plane in Sinai.”

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevenliev and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov expressed condolences to their Romanian and Russian counterparts over the two recent tragic events, which befell the citizens of the two countries.

An explosion and fire engulfed a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on Friday, which left 27 people dead and hundreds injured.

A militant group affiliated to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Egypt claimed responsibility for the downing of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Oct. 31, the group said in a statement circulated by supporters on Twitter.

A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Oct. 31 in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said.

A "Russian civilian plane... crashed in the central Sinai," the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said in a statement.

A cabinet statement said Egyptian military planes have spotted wreckage of the plane.

Wreckage of the Russian airplane, which crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, has reportedly been found near the al-Arish airport.

According to Egyptian officials, most of the 224 people on board are likely to have died, the BBC reports.

A Russian airplane carrying more than 200 people on board has reportedly crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday.

The information on the crash has been confirmed by the office of the Egyptian Prime Minister, the BBC reports.

The airplane operated by Kogalymavia airline was conducting flight 92-68 from the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg.

A passenger jet traveling from the Egyptian resort Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg disappeared from radar screens in Cypriot airspace. The Russian Kogalymavia airlines Airbus A-321, according to sources, had 217 passengers (17 children) and seven crew members on board. All of the passengers were Russian civilians.

A ministerial-level summit on the future of Syria that has started on Oct. 29, less than a week after an initial four-way meeting, will bring together a wider range of countries, including ones with whom Turkey is at diplomatic loggerheads, as well as Iran.

Hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residents are stranded and prices for basic goods are soaring after a jihadist advance cut the sole route to regime-held areas of Syria's second city.
 
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) last week severed a road south of the city that formed part of the only remaining way out for residents of the government-held west of Aleppo.