Islamic State is the focus of investigations into a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the Turkish capital Ankara and investigators are close to identifying one of the suspects, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday.

Days before elections are set to begin, the Al-Nour Party and its religious arm, the Salafi Call, have been embroiled in internal conflicts.

According to Egyptian law 46/2014, 24 seats are allocated for Copts inside the upcoming parliament. This quota represents 20% of the total seats elected via closed-list systems, which in total form 120 seats of over 500 members of the House of Representatives.

The Salafi Al-Nour Party is focusing on making reform promises for voters and providing services for citizens in its electoral campaign.

The Interior Ministry announced on Sunday that a leading terrorist suspect belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood died while trying to escape a police raid in his hideout in Alexandria.

The United States and its allies staged 24 air strikes on Islamic State in Syria and Iraq on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.

A misdemeanours court upheld a five-year prison term previously handed down to controversial religious researcher Islam al-Beheiry for contempt of religion, dismissing his appeal on Saturday.

The “No to Religious Parties” campaign group announced it collected 1.25m signatures at a press conference it held Sunday in Downtown Cairo to reveal its achievements one week before the beginning of the first round of the parliamentary elections.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls met Sunday with Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb during his visit to Cairo that started Saturday.

Egypt's High State Security Prosecution appealed Thursday a criminal court decision to release controversial preacher Mahmoud Shaaban and 10 other defendants being investigated in what is known as the “Salafist Front” case.

Spokesperson to the Higher Elections Committee (HEC) Omar Marawan has said the law stipulates that all niqab-wearing women will only cast ballots if they remove the face veil while voting, for identity verification purposes. Otherwise they will be barred.

The Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) will ban women from wearing the ‘Niqab’ (face covering) while casting their ballots, state-run media Al-Ahram reported on Thursday.

Cairo Governor Galal Saeed inspected the site of a blast near Ramses in Cairo Thursday morning and ordered a thorough search of neighboring schools for any explosives before students start their school day, reported the state news agency MENA.

Several Iraqi Kurdish troops tested positive for mustard gas after battles this summer with the Islamic State group in northern Iraq, a spokesman for the paramilitary group said Wednesday.

Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II headed to the United States on Wednesday for a three week visit to the two oldest dioceses in Los Angeles and the southern U.S., Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Islamic State in Yemen on Tuesday claimed coordinated suicide bombings targeting the Yemeni government and the Arab military coalition in the southern city of Aden that killed 15 Arab and Yemeni troops.

Seventy-seven niqab-wearing faculty members from across Cairo University are preparing to file a law suit against the university president, a lawyer involved in the case told Aswat Masriya.

The Muslim Council of Elders, chaired by Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, is meeting on Thursday in Amman, Jordan to discuss the repeated Israeli aggressions on al-Aqsa Mosque, among other Islamic issues.

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.