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.

Six suspected militants were killed in clashes with security forces south of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, security sources said on Monday.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat listed Sunday leading figures in the banned Muslim Brotherhood group as “terrorists”, based on the new “terrorist entities” law.

A Islamic State-affiliated militant group has vowed to carry out more attacks in Tunisia following a deadly assault on a Tunis museum earlier this month for which it had claimed responsibility.