Islamist militants and fighters loyal to the Syrian government have made a rare prisoner swap, with insurgents releasing 25 women and children in exchange for one of their commanders, a monitoring group said on Monday.

Egypt's ministry of interior announced killing the founder of Ajnad Misr militant group on Sunday after identifying his location in an apartment in a Giza suburb.

Islamist militants hit Egypt's two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded, security sources said.

Egyptian authorities have arrested the sons of Hamza Zawbaa, a leader of the now blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood, an interior ministry source said, amid a continuing crackdown on Islamists.

As Egyptian Christians celebrate Palm Sunday, weavers from Upper Egypt head to the capital to sell their art pieces and join the celebrations

The General Authority for Investment (GAFI) has given a grace period of 15 days to privately-owned channel Al Kahera Wal Nasr to shut down its controversial show “With Islam,” sources at GAFI told Youm7 Sunday.

1,233 Egyptian Christians departed from Cairo on Friday, heading to Jerusalem for the upcoming Easter celebrations, an anonymous airport source said, quoted by MENA new agency.

Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros is scheduled to visit the Monastery of Saint Bishoy in Wadi el-Natrun to mark Palm Sunday, Youm7 reported.

Hundreds of Egyptian Copts departed Cairo airport Friday heading to Jerusalem ahead of Coptic Easter celebrations, Youm7 reported.

The attack on five army checkpoints along the Arish-Rafah road in North Sinai has left 22 dead, including 18 soldiers and four civilians, a medical source in North Sinai said Thursday in an update to the numbers declared hours earlier.

Three men were killed while allegedly manufacturing explosive devices inside a house in a Delta village in Sharqia Wednesday evening, Youm7 reported.

Militants from the Islamic State group seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus from other insurgents on Wednesday in a bid to capture a major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power.

Religious jurisprudence textbooks for Al-Azhar students address, among other things, the issue of eating dead human beings, quoting Mansour bin Yunus al-Bahuti, a scholar of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence who died 500 years ago, as saying that eating dead Jews, Christians and non-believers is halal (permissible by Islam) if it is a necessity, but non-Muslims are not to eat dead Muslims, even out of necessity.

Three people were killed in a blast in the governorate of Sharqiya while manufacturing an explosive device inside their home, the governorate's security director said.

A policeman in the Homeland Security branch was shot dead by unknown assailants in Menoufia to the north of the Egyptian capital in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior local security official said.

Iraq’s defense minister says security forces have achieved a “magnificent victory” over the Islamic State group in Tikrit.

Prosecutor's in Upper Egypt's Beni Suef referred on Wednesday 230 Egyptians to the military prosecutor for violence-related charges

The extremist Islamic State group Tuesday executed at least 30 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a regime-held village in Syria's central province of Hama, a monitor said.

A Cairo court ordered 68 people on trial for acts of violence that occurred during the commemoration of the January 2011 uprising to pay a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds each, on Tuesday.