The statement added that one of the attackers had been killed and the second was in custody . Egypt has been battling an insurgency by Islamic militants led by the Islamic State 's affiliate . The insurgency has been focused in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula but has frequently spilled over into the mainland since the ousting personnel.endposition.na in 2013 of the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi . The Hurghada attack is a dangerous precedent since Egypt 's Red Sea resorts have done better than elsewhere in the country in withering the slump suffered by the vital tourism sector in the five years of turmoil since a popular uprising toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak . Egyptian media Youm7 reports this is one of the attackers killed by security forces

( CNN ) There is " little doubt " Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails , a US official told CNN on Wednesday . The remarks follow a week - long episode where leaked DNC emails showed Democratic officials giving preferential treatment to Hillary Clinton . The emails inflamed supporters of her primary opponent , Bernie Sanders , during the Democratic Party 's national convention , which led to widespread protest and the ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz . Asked about potential consequences for the hack , the White House described " a full range of options available to us in the government . " " That includes economic sanctions out of Department of Treasury .

In August , Moscow hosted a gathering of nationalist and separatist activists from all over Europe and the U.S .— part of an ongoing effort to encourage anti - EU and anti - NATO political groups , including Greece ’s Golden Dawn , Bulgaria ’s Ataka and Hungary ’s Jobbik . As Vice President Joe Biden warned in a speech in Washington last year , “ Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated , to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit . ” To Putin ’s mind , the campaign is a way of pushing back against what he sees as meddling by Washington and Brussels in his backyard , from allegedly encouraging anti - Putin protests in Moscow in 2011 to fomenting the pro - European Maidan uprising in Kiev in 2013 that led to the ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff of President Yanukovych ( and put Paul Manafort temporarily out of a job ) . Putin “ honestly believes that the U.S. is trying to overthrow him , ” says Kremlin - connected political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky , who advised Putin until 2011 . “ In the eyes of Russian elites , Western aggression must be met with a response , ” argues Eugene Rumer , director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 's Russia and Eurasia Program and a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council .

' Yats is the guy ' , Nuland said , referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk , who indeed would become the new prime minister . Nuland and Pyatt then exchanged ideas how to ' glue this thing ' and how to ' midwife this thing ' . This ' thing ' became the bloody Feb. 22 , 2014 coup ousting personnel.endposition.firinglayoff elected President Yanukovych and touching off a civil war between Ukrainian ' nationalists ' from the west and Ukraine 's ethnic Russians in the east . " Crucially , Parry notes , " when citizen Clinton weighed in on the Ukraine crisis , she compared Russian President Putin to Hitler . " With neocons vowing " to ignore Russia 's warnings against what it views as military threats to its existence , " and proposing that NATO " incorporate Ukrainian army units into its expansion of military operations along Russia 's border , " it will be up to the next president to test whether the current downturn in Russia - US relations can get any worse .