Q: What is your name and profession? A: My name is Osama Hussein al-Metwally al-Guindi. I am the head of the Central Security Department of the Presidency.

A senior Muslim cleric in Palestine criticised Israeli police for preventing from Muslims worshippers from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning.

Gharbiya security agencies arrested on Tuesday evening 15 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters after they clashed with the police and the residents with bricks and Molotov cocktails.

On the third anniversary of the October 9 Maspiro clashes, different groups and organizations have butted heads on how to best commemorate the event.

The family of Mohamed Soltan, an Egyptian-American on hunger strike for more than 250 days, says that his health has deteriorated rapidly in the last few days.

Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis released Sunday a video showing the confessions of three Egyptians it claims to have executed in North Sinai for "cooperating with the Egyptian Army and the Israeli Mossad".

Egypt will train Libyan forces to fight terrorism and help secure a shared border, the prime ministers of the two states announced in Cairo on Wednesday, stepping up efforts against Islamist insurgents in both countries.

A US envoy tasked with building a coalition against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is expected to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday, where he will hold talks on fostering the US-led alliance, state news agency MENA reported.

The race for the Nobel peace prize, to be announced Friday, has rarely been as open or unpredictable, experts say, with the pope and Edward Snowden tipped as possible winners.

Former president Mohamed Morsi’s aides were responsible for injuring protesters in December 2012, according to new testimony by a number of army officers and security chiefs in charge of securing the Ithadeya presidential palace, when at least 10 people were killed.

Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will meet on October 20 to discuss the conflicts in Iraq and Syria where jihadist forces threaten Christians and other minorities, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

The Maspiro Youth Union is calling for a protest Thursday Oct.9 in Shubra to commemorate the third anniversary of Maspiro demonstrations and clashes that lead to the death of number of an estimated 25 Egyptians, mostly Coptic Christians.

Turkey: Jihadists waged fierce street battles Tuesday with Kurdish militia backed by US-led air strikes in a Syrian border town whose fall would mark a major victory for the Islamic State group.

Kurdish militia backed by US-led air strikes fought fierce street battles Tuesday with advancing jihadists whose three-week assault on a key Syrian border town has left hundreds reported dead.

A Franciscan priest and several Christians have been seized by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said on Tuesday.

Sound bomb detonated near the Evangelical Church in Upper Egypt's Minya city late Sunday, state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian jihadists have reportedly beheaded another three Egyptians they accused of working for Israeli intelligence, a gruesome video posted on YouTube and then removed has shown.

Egyptian security forces on Monday detained a man for flashing the four-fingered Rabaa al-Adawiya sign at the Tahrir Square as scores of people were marking the 41st anniversary of a 1973 military victory over Israel.

Small-scale protests by supporters of president Mohamed Morsi took place in Egypt on Monday, the anniversary of the 6 October war, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Air strikes on three bases of the Islamic State group around their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul killed at least 25 jihadists overnight, medical sources and witnesses said on Monday.

Clashes erupted in Alexandria on Sunday between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood.