Two people, one of them a Christian nun, have been shot dead in the Wadi al-Natrun area, according to an Interior Ministry official.

The brother of one of the jihadists who blew themselves up in the deadly Paris attacks last November was jailed Wednesday for nine years on terror-related charges.

Egypt has reacted angrily to comments from Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan in which he slammed Egypt's "oppressive regime" for its crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood group and harsh judicial verdicts against its members.

The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it is looking into the kidnapping in Libya of six Egyptian workers as they made their way back to Egypt.

The Islamic State group said on Wednesday that it carried out a suicide bombing that killed 16 people in a mainly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria.

Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, strongly condemned the "despicable" terrorist attacks that struck two Saudi Arabian cities Monday.

Saudi Arabia's crown prince and anti-terror tsar sought on Tuesday to reassure Saudis of the country's security after suicide attacks targeting the holy city of Medina, the U.S. consulate in Jeddah and Shi'ites in the city of Qatif.

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up in an attack on an Indonesian police station on Tuesday, leaving one officer injured, an official said.

Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least four security officers in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan.

The Egyptian foriegn ministry condemned Monday's bombings that took place near two mosques in Saudi Arabia, calling the attacks "vile terrorism".

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Monday but nobody else was hurt, residents told AFP.

A suicide bomber carried out an attack early on Monday near the U.S. Consulate in the western Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, according to the Interior Ministry.

The Shubra court judge denied on Monday an appeal put forth by rights lawyer Malek Adly's defence team against his detention pending investigation.

The death toll from a suicide bombing in a Baghdad shopping district has risen to over 150, fueling calls for security forces to crack down on Islamic State sleeper cells blamed for one of the worst ever single bombings in Iraq.

Russia and the United States held fresh talks on Saturday on ways of cooperating to end the five-year conflict in Syria as intensive Syrian government air strikes killed at least 40 civilians in a town northeast of Damascus.

At least 82 people were killed and 200 injured in two bombings that hit Baghdad around midnight Saturday, nearly all of them in a blast targeting a busy shopping area as they celebrated Ramadan, police and medical sources said Sunday.

US-backed rebels on Sunday accused Al-Qaeda-linked fighters of storming their headquarters in northwestern Syria and kidnapping their commander and dozens of other combatants.

At least two people were killed and seven wounded in a night-time car bomb attack targeting a security chief in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a news agency and medical sources said Sunday.

One the most organised, well-financed, and state-backed political movements in the post-25 January Revolution political scene, Egypt’s Islamists received a blow to both their project and organisation on 30 June 2013 after thousands took to the streets demanding the removal of then president Mohamed Morsi.

Six Egyptian pilgrims were killed and 14 others wounded in Saturday's bus crash in Saudi Arabia, the Egyptian Community in Saudi Arabia announced on its Facebook page Sunday.

Six Egyptian border guards were killed Thursday morning in a shootout with smugglers in the desert near Egypt's western border, the army said in a statement.