The Islamic State group on Monday returned to the desert town of Rutba in western Iraq, less than a day after vacating it, officials said.

Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate claimed a deadly attack by heavily-armed gunmen on an Ivory Coast resort on Sunday that killed at least 16 people, US-based monitors said.

Algeria’s top military chief has heightened the army’s state of alert over border security because of concerns over arms trafficking and turmoil in neighbouring Libya, where Islamic State has gained ground.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas began an official visit to Cairo Saturday with a meeting with Egyptian Intelligence Service officials upon arrival to a hotel in the capital, according to knowledgeable sources. Aِِccording to sources, the General Intelligence Service, which manages the Palestinian-Israel conflict file, is seeking to break the ice with the group that faces accusations of involvement in the assassination of Egypt's Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat.

The Islamic State group on Sunday pulled its fighters out of Rutba, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said.

Three senior leaders of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas traveled to Cairo on Saturday to try to repair relations with Egypt after years of tension.

Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb headed to Germany Sunday in a five-day visit to participate in a conference on religions, Youm7 reported.

Prosecutor-general Nabil Sadek sent a memorandum to the State Council on Saturday to settle a dispute between the judge and a member of the prosecution in the Qatar espionage trial in which ousted president Mohamed Morsi is being tried along with other Muslim Brotherhood leaders.

An Egyptian court acquitted Thursday 49 Muslim Brotherhood members of illegal protesting and attempting to overthrow the ruling regime.

The Damanhur Criminal Court on Thursday acquitted 49 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters on charges of destruction of public property and inciting violence, Youm7 reported.

A senior Islamic State militant has said in an interview identifying him as the new leader of the jihadists’ Libyan offshoot that the extremist organisation is getting “stronger every day” in the north African country. Abdul Qadr al-Najdi, described in an interview released by the SITE monitoring group on Thursday as “the emir tasked with administering the Libyan provinces”, said he was praying for Libya to be made the “vanguard of the Caliphate”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that Islamic State's group military commander was badly wounded but still alive, appearing to contradict U.S. officials who said he was likely killed in a U.S. air strike.

Germany’s federal criminal police say they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group and believe them to be authentic. Thursday’s announcement comes after Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State files on the border with Turkey and Syria, detailing IS fighters’ real names, telephone numbers, and even names of those who sponsored and recruited the fighters.

Three police soldiers were reportedly killed Tuesday night and seven others wounded in two explosions in Egypt’s North Sinai governorate, where Islamist militants are active and have pledged allegiance to the “Islamic State” (IS).

Police announced they killed a “wanted militant” Wednesday in an exchange of fire with police south of Giza, Youm7 reported.

Tunisian troops have killed seven more Islamist militants during raids in Ben Guerdan, the town on the Libyan border where at least 55 people died during an attack on Monday by Islamic State fighters, the army said on Wednesday.

The Islamic State (IS) group's battle-tested equivalent of a defense minister is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in northeastern Syria, a US official here said.

In a raid that bore the hallmarks of a foreign special forces unit, soldiers dropped off by helicopters hiked through the nighttime dark to a town controlled by Islamic militants. Then a firefight erupted.

Officials of the Iran-allied Houthi movement are in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Yemen’s war, two officials from a Houthi-controlled administrative body said on Tuesday.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habid Essid says the death toll from clashes between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers near the Libyan border has risen to 55, including 36 attackers.

A blast in North Sinai's al-Arish city left two policeman killed and three injured on Monday, the interior ministry said in a statement.