Islamic State's Egypt affiliate said it was behind a car bombing that wounded 29 people near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb early on Thursday.

Four Palestinians were kidnapped Wednesday evening by unknown assailants in restive North Sinai, the the Ministry of Interior of Gaza in stated.

The bombing of a security building in Greater Cairo in the early hours of Thursday was caused by a car "which suddenly stopped" outside the building, a security source said.

The self-proclaimed “lslamic State” group (IS) claimed responsibility for an attack on the National Security headquarters in Shubra Al-Kheima, Qaliubiya. At least 29 people were injured in a car bomb at around 2am on Thursday, officials said.

Alleged Islamic States affiliates in Egypt have claimed responsibility for a car bomb explosion Thursday morning at Shubra el-Khema, Cairo that injured at least 29.

Egypt detained Hamas deputy religious affairs official Hassan Asseify at the Cairo Airport Monday dawn after security issues were found in his entrance papers, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The distorting the image of Islam is due to the rise of extremist attacks, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in a meeting a delegation of preachers and religious personnel on Tuesday.

The Islamic State group has beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities director for the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief and a monitor said. Photos purporting to show Khaled al-Assaad's body tied to a post in Palmyra were circulated online by IS supporters. Syria's antiquities chief Maamoun Abdelkarim told AFP that Assaad was executed by the jihadist group on Tuesday afternoon in Palmyra, in central Homs province.

Egyptian authorities on Wednesday released a Hamas leader after detaining him a day earlier, an Egyptian diplomatic source told Anadolu Agency.

Fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militants have reestablished dominance over the Libyan city of Sirte after using brutal force to suppress a rebellion by residents of the city in recent days.

A New Cairo prosecution released photographer Ahmed Ramadan on bail late Monday, after a former work colleague had instigated his arrest by telling the police he belonged to a terrorist organisation.

Seven men who allegedly belong to two “terrorist cells” based in Sharqia, in Egypt’s Delta, were arrested and their explosives storehouses were seized, according to a Tuesday statement by the police.

An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated Tuesday morning in Assiut, southern Egypt, according to a Ministry of Interior press office representative.

The centrist Islamist Wasat Party has dismissed reports saying its recently released leader was mediating a reconciliation between the Egyptian government and the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the country's largest Christian denomination, is to resume his weekly sermon on Wednesday after a hiatus that lasted over a month, cathedral officials told Ahram Online.

President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi called for uniting the fatwa bodies due the “deformation” of the image of Islam during Dar al-Iftaa’s international conference Tuesday, reported a release from the presidency.

A senior Amnesty International official has been found to have private links with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and revolutionary Islamists accused of plotting a coup in an Arab state.

In the four years since the Arab Spring, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has gone from the streets to the presidential palace and back again. Now, with its leader sentenced to death and its followers persecuted by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s regime, the Muslim Brotherhood is at a critical juncture. Will it be destroyed? Will it give up on its doctrine of nonviolence? Or will it just fade away, its younger members drawn to more radical movements such as ISIS?

The chairman of the centrist Islamist Wasat Party Abul Ela Mady resumed his political activity on Saturday, a few days after his release from custody, according to sources.

Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta held a two-day international Fatwa conference to counter radical extremism entitled Fatwa: current reality and future prospects, with the participation of 50 countries, Youm7 reported Monday.

It said it was “doing everything in its power” and working with the Croatian Embassy in Cairo to obtain information about the kidnapped man. “The ministry is also keeping close contact with the victim’s family”, it said.