U.S. Intelligence officials are virtually certain the Metrojet airliner that crashed in the Sinai peninsula was brought down by a bomb. The prime suspect is an ISIS affiliate that has taken claim all along.

The airport at Egypt's resort of Sharm el-Sheikh has long seen gaps in security, including a key baggage scanning device that often is not functioning and lax searches at an entry gate.

Egypt's state news agency says a head-on collision of two tourist buses near a popular Red Sea resort has killed 33 people and injured 41.