An Egyptian Christian who was arrested in early August for handing out Bibles to Muslims at a mall is likely to remain jailed indefinitely after a judge extended his sentence and charged him with blasphemy right before he was scheduled to be released.

Islamic State has seized new territory from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, advancing in an area where Turkey and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group.

A British hacker who U.S. and European officials said became a top cyber expert for Islamic State in Syria has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, a U.S. source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The North Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis "ABM" militant group claimed responsibility on Wednesday afternoon for the killing of two policemen in Al-Arish city, releasing graphic photographs on their social media account of the murders.

Acting Prosecutor General Ali Omran referred the suspects in the attack launched last June on security checkpoints outside the Karnak Temple to military trial on Thursday.

Egypt's Ministry of Endowments supports a campaign entitled "no to religious parties," it said in an official statement on Wednesday.

Masked gunmen shot and killed two police sergeants in Arish, North Sinai, on Wednesday, a security source has said.

Order guards were involved in operations in the Southern Military district that apprehended large amounts of narcotics and ammunition, and led to the arrest of two suspects.

Shubra El-Kheima Criminal Court sentenced eight Muslim Brotherhood members, including Brotherhood leader Mohsen Rady, to 20 years in prison, reported state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper.

The Endowments Ministry has raised observers’ ire with its plans to install monitoring cams at mosques, the latest measure in a broader strategy to combat extremist thought.

The United States and Turkey have finalized technical details on an agreement to include Turkey in an international effort to bring down the Islamic State, fully integrating Turkey into the U.S.-led coalition's air strikes against the militant group, a Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced on Monday leading Muslim Brotherhood member Mohsen Rady, along with seven other alleged members, to 20 years in prison over violence-related charges, in the latest court decision targeting the once ruling group.

The Endowments Ministry has appealed to its employees not to run for the upcoming parliamentrary elections and to be "fully dedicated to their missionary message through pulpits and mosques."

Islamic State has executed four people in the central Libyan city of Sirte, including at least one member of a rival group whose body was put on display, according to residents and a video published on social media on Monday.

Al-Azhar denounced the destruction of “Arab heritage,” after the Islamic State group (IS) reportedly blew up the Baalshamin Temple in Palmyra, Syria, a fifth-century Saint Elian monastery, and beheaded keeper of Palmyra Khaled al-Asaad, according to a Monday statement.

Dar Al-Ifta, Egypt's major authority on religious edicts, said the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group has sought to "legitimise violence" after a document affiliated to the group urged what Dar Al-Ifta called "terrorist acts" and the killing of police and military personnel.

Islamic State militants on Sunday blew up the ancient temple of Baal Shamin in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, an official said, the latest in a series of cultural relics to be destroyed by the jihadist group.

Two members of Egypt's security forces have been killed and at least 27 others injured in a bombing that targeted their bus in Beheira, north of Cairo, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Eight Brotherhood members were sentenced to 20 years of maximum security prison on Monday, in a trial where they were accused of complicity in violence that took place in 2013.

A string of coordinated attacks on military checkpoints and a police station in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid is "moving in the same direction" as that of Islamic State fighters, an analyst said.

After a two-day strike by low-ranking police forces ended with promises to study their economic demands, many rights activists are asking whether Egypt’s anti-protest laws would apply to the striking officers?