A policeman was killed after an armored vehicles crossed over a roadside bomb on the International Coastal Road in Arish, North Sinai, Youm7 reported Monday.

The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday in their latest round of daily strikes, according to the coalition leading the operations.

The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church is studying ‘loosening’ the regulations for issuing second marriage licenses, according to state media.

The Egyptian interior minister said on Sunday that leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey and the group's Palestinian offshoot Hamas were behind the assassination of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat on 29 June, 2015.

Egypt's general prosecution ordered the detention of six suspects for 15 days pending investigation into charges of killing the prosecutor-general in June 2015, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Sunday.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered on Sunday the detention of six suspects for 15 days pending questioning over the assassination of former chief prosecutor Hesham Barakat.

Two security personnel and a medic were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in North Sinai, according to security and medical sources. The bomb was detonated by terrorists as troops from the governorate's security forces were passing along the road to the south of Sheikh Zuwayed City.

North Sinai Security Department hasarrested 26 suspects during a province-wide operation to catch fugitives from justice.

Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity", in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show

The U.S. and its allies in Iraq and Syria staged 29 strikes against IS group on Wednesday, the coalition leading the operations said.

An Egyptian headmistress is not being instated in her post “because she’s a Christian.” This is the claim surrounding the case of Mervat Sefein, a vocational teacher in Beni Mazar, a town of Minya, 220 km south of Cairo. Sefein was included on a Feb. 8 Egyptian Ministry of Education (MoE) promotion directive, but could not assume her new position due to “student protests.”

Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Hussein denied asking Egyptian lawyer and head of the Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies Saad Eddin Ibrahim to mediate to reconcile the group with the current Egyptian regime, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.

The Egyptian Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Monday that it discovered and destroyed 12 tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip in February.

A military court in Assiut has handed down prison sentences of between five and ten years to 117 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of attacking a church and conducting an attack on an electricity transformer.

The six-member Gulf Cooperation Council has designated Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, it said on Wednesday, ratcheting up pressure on theIran-allied group that wields influence in Lebanon and plays a key role in the Syrian crisis.

US Special Operations Forces captured a significant Islamic State operative in Iraq, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, the first suspected raid by a new force sent in recent weeks to target the jihadist group's fighters and leaders.

Jordan's security services said on Wednesday they had thwarted a plot by Islamic State militants to blow up civilian and military targets, in one of the US ally's largest sweeps in years against hardline sleeper cells.

Three soldiers were killed Wednesday during an attack on an army patrol near Sinai’s Sheikh Zuweid. An IED ambush caught the patrol near Al-Wahshi checkpoint. At least one soldier was injured, according to local reports. The army is yet to officially announce an account of the attack.

Port Said Criminal Court cut on Tuesday a life prison sentence of a Mohamed Morsi supporter, which he got in absentia, to six months following a retrial. Ahmed Ibrahim Monsef was handed the jail term for storming Al-Arab police station in coastal city Port Said in August 2013.

Islamic State’s deadliest attacks for months in and around Baghdad could be a sign that Iraqi forces are stretched thin after recent advances to reclaim territory from the group, according to some military commanders and a provincial official.

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 27 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Monday in its latest round of daily attacks, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations.