The militant group Islamic State said on Thursday it had blown up two warplanes at an air base that it had seized near the central Libyan city of Sirte.

Cairo criminal court resumes on Thursday the Qatar espionage trial of ex-president Mohamed Morsi and ten others.

The Council of Churches will organize a Cairo conference to “counter atheism in Egypt” June 16, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Conservative Party's call for a unified electoral list for the upcoming parliamentary elections, which are yet to be scheduled, has caused a division among political parties, as many liberal groups object to the inclusion of the Salafi Nour Party on the list.

Several Copts affected by the church’s refusal to grant them permission for a second marriage decided to cancel a protest scheduled to take place at the Cathedral in Abbassiya on Wednesday.

Security personnel detonated two vehicles near a camp for multinational peacekeepers in North Sinai late Tuesday, killing at least six suspected militants, a military source said.

Pope Francis on Wednesday approved an unprecedented Vatican department to judge bishops accused of covering up or not preventing sexual abuse of minors, meeting a key demand by victims' groups.

A staff member at the US embassy in Cairo has been arrested by Egyptian authorities, an embassy spokesperson confirmed to Daily News Egypt Tuesday.

The Dokki Misdemeanor Court has on Tuesday sentenced in absentia Mohamed al-Quddusi from the satellite TV channel Sharq to 10 years in prison and fined him LE500 for allegedly broadcasting false news that allegedly aimed to overthrow the regime in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A Tuesday video by militant group “State of Sinai” has claimed the killing of a man by gunshot under the accusation he was an informant for the security forces.

A child was killed when a rocket hit a house in North Sinai on Tuesday, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

Islamic State militants have seized a power plant west of the Libyan city of Sirte which supplies central and western parts of the country with electricity, the group and a military source said on Tuesday.

Egyptian security and hospital officials say two militant attacks in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula have killed one soldier and wounded four.

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb is to give the opening speech at the East and West: Dialogue between civilizations conference in Florence Monday, Youm7 reported.

A U.S. official said Wednesday that more than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed by American-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in nine months, offering a body count for a campaign that has yet to blunt their advance.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese attended on Sunday the celebration of “Brotherly Love Day” between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.

A year of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s presidency has shown “negative” progression towards an environment of democracy and human rights in a newly surfaced US State Department report.

In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, Abdul Salam Mantin, the Mufti of Myanmar, said Muslims in his country suffer from daily acts of violence, murder and persecution, adding that a new family planning law was recently enacted to reduce the Muslim population.

Egypt's minister for religious endowments called for the issuance of an "international law to criminalise contempt of religion" on Sunday.

A policeman was killed in a blast inside a warehouse used to manufacture explosive devices north of Cairo on Saturday, the state news agency MENA reported.

The United States and its allies carried out 22 air strikes against Islamic States militants in Syria and Iraq during a 24-hour period to Sunday, a U.S. military statement said.