A leading Syrian rebel commander said on Wednesday it was illogical to suggest the Free Syrian Army (FSA) could join forces with Damascus to fight Islamic State, after the Russian president said his French counterpart had tabled the idea.

Pope Tawadros II, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, said Sunday Copts who join the lists of the Salafist Al-Nour Party for the next parliamentary elections should not be trusted either by Muslims or Christians.

Egypt’s House of Zakat received a 16 million EGP ($2.04 million) grant from Bahrain to establish two Azhraian institutions and two dispensaries, according to the Secretary-General of the House of Zakat Nasser Fouad, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Suspected militants from Nigeria’s Boko Haram group killed 11 soldiers in an attack over the border in Chad early on Tuesday, a Chadian military source said.

“It will take the Muslim Brotherhood roughly a decade to decide upon political and more general stances. Meanwhile militant Islamism, no longer confined to Jamaat Islami like in the 1980s and 1990s, will continue, perpetuating the idea that all ideological movements have a radical version,” says political scientist and commentator Wahid Abdel-Meguid.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks on the Yemeni government in Aden as well as Gulf Arab troops on Tuesday, it said in a statement released on twitter.

Islamic State militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a major monument in the 2,000-year-old Roman city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday, after they destroyed two ancient temples at the central Syrian site in recent months.

The Salafi Call has demanded that Culture Minister Helmy al-Namnam apologize for calling Egypt “instinctively secular”, adding that the choice of Namnam as culture minister has aroused concerns among Egyptians

Coptic Christians have had a historical role in the Egyptian Parliament since it was first formed by Khedive Ismail. There were periods where they ascended the political ladder and left their mark on the history of modern Egypt, and other periods where they were not present in the political arena.

A police agent was killed and another colleague was wounded early Monday when unknown attackers shot them at a checkpoint in Beni Ebeid, Daqahlia.

Pope Francis said Monday that the Church was "not a museum" but a place for progress, as members of a key synod on the family rolled up their sleeves for the first day of what promises to be a spicy debate.

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II is travelling to the United States at the end of this week, Father Pals Halim, a spokesperson for the church, said on Sunday.

Al-Azhar University has boosted its security measures during the first week of the academic year 2015/2016 that started on Saturday.

Apolice captain and a police conscript were shot dead in Al-Arish in North Sinai on Saturday, as the self-proclaimed “Revolutionary Punishment” and “State of Sinai” militant groups continue to claim drive by attacks and ambushes on police officials.

Anas el-Beltagy, the son of a prominent Muslim Brotherhood politician and two other students were sentenced to five years in prison for arms possession by a criminal court in Cairo on Saturday.

The Tanta Criminal Court sentenced four members from the Muslim Brotherhood, on Sunday, to life in prison in absentia. Six other defendants received a 15-year sentence on charges of joining a banned group, inciting riots and intimidating citizens.

Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II on Tuesday called on Christian members of religious parties to "reconsider their position," a statement that media reports conjectured was specifically directed to Copts who are members of the Salafist Nour Party.

Cairo cassation court postponed Thursday the retrial of 38 sentenced defendants’, including 14 journalists, to 15 October, in the case known as the ‘Rabaa operations room’.

Two consecutive explosions were heard in Zagazig City, Sharqiya, in the early hours of Thursday morning. The first took place near Sharqiya Security Directorate and the second near the wall of Zagazig public prison. No deaths were reported.

Cairo University, Egypt's oldest higher education institution, issued a ban that would bar lecturers or teaching assistants wearing the niqab (full face veil) from teaching, the university announced.

Many Egyptians feel as though they are floating in an ocean towards insecurity, stuck between a “dinosaur” of a state and the “monster” of the Muslim Brotherhood, politician and media presenter Gameela Ismail told an audience in Washington DC at the Middle East Initiative Wednesday.