Eight members of a new “terrorist cell”, allegedly in contact with the Islamic State group (IS), have been arrested by Homeland Security in the Nile Delta governorate of Sharqi, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Islamist Istiqlal party has been banned over its participation in the Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Sources said the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization has begun to intensify its efforts to prosecute officials of the Egyptian regime before international courts after recent demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to the United Nations.

The Cairo Criminal Court Monday adjourned the espionage trial of former President Mohamed Morsi—who did not attend the hearing—and a number of Muslim Brotherhood codefendants, to Oct. 14 in order to “implement the demands of the defense,” Youm7 reported.

Students who want to live in Al-Azhar University's dorms this year have found something new: a black-and-white form they must sign.

A misdemeanor court has sentenced preacher Abdullah Badr, presenter of the Al-Hafez satellite channel, to two months in prison and fined him LE5,000 for insulting the judiciary.

Giza explosive experts say they defused a bomb on Monday that was planted near a police checkpoint on the 26 July corridor.

The emigration of Egypt’s Copts is neither wrong nor dangerous; emigration is a human right. Forcible migration, however, is dangerous,” Kamal Zakher, a researcher in Coptic affairs, said at a Sunday discussion on Coptic emigration.

Egyptian troops have killed over two dozen jihadist fighters during raids on militant hideouts in several provinces, Egypt's army stated.

Libyan armed militias are still holding 65 Egyptian truck drivers hostage for the fifth consecutive day in the city of Ajdabiya.

The Muslim Brotherhood said ousted president Hosni Mubarak is receiving defence and litigation rights which citizens did not receive during his “oppressive tenure”, after Mubarak’s trial was postponed.

The Students Against the Coup movement organized protests in Tahrir Square on Sunday to express its rejection of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s planned presentation at Cairo University scheduled to take place later Sunday evening.

Several top members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been asked to leave Qatar, an Egyptian leader of the group said Sunday. The apparent sudden push from Qatar comes amid longstanding pressure against the Brotherhood in the region, which began with its ouster from authority in Egypt several years ago.

Shubra al-Kheima Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday Muslim Brotherhood figures Abdullah Hassan Barakat, dean of Azhar University Faculty of Daawa, and Hossam Marghany to life over charges of inciting violence and blocking the highway in Qalyub city in July 2013, after the ouster of toppled President Mohamed Morsy.

Cairo Criminal Court decided on Thursday to issue a verdict against 68 suspects involved in riots in Azbakeya district during the 6 October war victory celebrations on 30 September.

The death sentences for two leading Islamist figures were downgraded to life imprisonment following a retrial by Cairo's criminal court on Thursday.

A Jordanian court acquitted radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada on Wednesday of charges of providing spiritual and material support for a plot to attack tourists during New Year celebrations in 2000, a judicial source said.

The United States and Arab allies launched strikes from the air and sea against Islamic State militants in Syria on Tuesday, opening a new front in the battle against the brutal jihadist group.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said Egypt is key in the fight against extremism in the region, while also urging President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to respect human rights.