Hundreds attended on Tuesday a mass in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate in commemoration of the 20 Copts who were slain in Libya by the Islamic State militant group one year ago.

A human rights group has urged the House of Representatives to intervene to speed up efforts to locate eight Egyptians believed to be kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Libya between July and September 2014.

A Swiss woman who has visited Egypt more than 40 times in the past two decades, has collected 7,000 Swiss Francs ($7,090) as a charitable donation from her friends and neighbors in Switzerland for the families of the 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were murdered last year by the Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya.

Hundreds of El-Aour village in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate attended a memorial mass held Tuesday at the Virgin Mary Church in Samalout to mark the first anniversary of the 21 Egyptian nationals beheaded by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya, reported Youm7.

Cairo University’s president banned on Sunday all women involved in treating patients at university hospitals from wearing the niqab, a full-face veil.

Cairo University President Gaber Nassar decided on Sunday to ban nurses and doctors from wearing the Niqab, the full-face veil, in Qasr Al-Aini Medical School (QAMS) and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat said, based on tests by the global chemical weapons watchdog.

Forty students have been expelled from the Police Academy for having “political inclinations and belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood,” head of the college Amr al-Assar told Youm7 Monday.

A retired security officer in southern Saudi Arabia has been shot dead in an attack claimed Monday by IS group.

Two Egyptian army personnel were killed and another injured when a bomb detonated in North Sinai on Saturday morning, the military said.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has introduced amendments to its bylaws that effectively disconnects it from the organization’s leadership in Cairo.

Al-Azhar’s Dar al-Iftaa has condemned a decision by the Technical University of Dortmund to close a chamber used by Muslim students for performing prayer rituals.

Mansoura Criminal Court has given life sentences to 30 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Daqahliya after they were convicted on a range of charges, including murder.

The United States and its allies conducted 27 strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.

Military Spokesperson Mohamed Samir announced Thursday that second field army troops were able to find out and destroy a concrete tunnel with depth that extended for nine meters at al-Dahliya area in Rafah border city.

Egyptian military forces destroyed another tunnel connecting northern Sinai and the Gaza Strip, a military spokesman said on Thursday, after an Israeli minister said Egyptian-Israeli security coordination is "better than ever."

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the militant Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.

After Egypt President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi apologised for not finishing the reconstruction work of Christian properties damaged in the aftermath of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi’s ouster in 2013, the engineering unit of the Armed Forces immediately started cooperating with Coptic authorities to wrap up the pending renovations, religious Coptic figures said.

Defence ministers from the US-led coalition striking the Islamic State (IS) group met Thursday in a bid to engineer a decisive new phase in what has become a difficult fight with no end in sight.

A delegation from the Palestinian Fatah movement arrived in Cairo Tuesday evening to hold meetings with Egyptian officials and provide updates on the latest reconciliation talks in Doha between the movement and its rival Hamas, MENA reported.

At least 500 people have been killed on all sides during fighting in Aleppo province since the start of a Syrian army and allied forces offensive began in early February, a war monitor said on Wednesday.