Former president Mohamed Morsi's nephew and five others were granted a retrial on Wednesday over charges of involvement in the Sharqiya violence that broke out following Morsi's ouster in 2013.

Some 375 books authored by writers allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood were seized in Delta’s Kafr el-Sheikh over “inciting violence and extremism,” Undersecretary of Awqaf (Religious Endowment) Ministry Saad el-Fekki told Youm7 Wednesday.

A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 20 in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group.

The government committee tasked with managing funds of the Muslim Brotherhood group announced Wednesday it has seized 14 foreign exchange companies over affiliation with the banned group, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s top Islamic Sharia legislation body Dar al-Iftaa has denounced a call by US presidential candidate Donald Trump to deny Muslims entry to his country as stirring “hatred” and a threat to peace.

A Salafi leader has called for appointing a representative for Egypt’s Jews in the 2015 parliament, although other Islamists saw their number is too small to have a representative.

Egypt denounced Tuesday U.S. republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s remarks that called for a travel ban for all Muslims to the United States.

Syria has become the pre-eminent global incubator for a new generation of militants after Islamist groups more than doubled the recruitment of foreign fighters to as much as 31,000 over the past 18 months, according to a former British spy chief.

Four security personnel were killed on Tuesday and four others wounded in a bomb attack in the restive North Sinai town of Rafah, security sources said.

Days after he and 11 others were spared a death sentence and a retrial was granted, Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie may also be spared a life sentence based on recommendations from prosecutors on Monday.

The Cairo Kafr el Sheikh Criminal Court has commuted 10-year prison sentence against 120 defendants, allegedly belong to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB), to two years in jail over charges of inciting violence outside a police station following June 30 incidents, Youm7 reported.

The Court of Cassation postponed Monday its ruling on a retrial appeal submitted by the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, his deputy and 13 other defendants in the "Guidance Bureau" case to Jan 4.

Excluding the Nour Party from Egypt’s political scene will force young Islamists to turn to violence, the chairman of the Salafi party said during a TV interview on Sunday.

At least 32 Islamic State fighters were killed and 40 more wounded in Syria's Raqqa province on Sunday, in a series of air strikes believed to be carried out by a US-led coalition targeting the jihadists, a monitoring group said.

The Zagazig Criminal Court has handed down a death sentence to Adel Habbara for murdering a detective in Sharqiya.

The Ministry of Interior posted a video Saturday in which the claims made by female detainee Hagar a week earlier regarding her ill treatment in Shubra police station were denied by her lawyer and her aunt.

Agouza prosecution ordered on Sunday the arrest of a housewife for four days pending investigations, who was charged with hiding two suspects of the nightclub attack in Agouza in her house.

Egypt’s Administrative Court has rejected Saturday a lawsuit that calls for banning the broadcast of Mekameleen channel, a pro-Brotherhood satellite channel based in Turkey.

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an explosion which killed the governor of Yemen’s southern Aden province on Sunday.

The Egyptian Cassation Court accepted Thursday appeals on verdicts issued against 38 defendants, sentencing them to death penalty and life in prison.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation accepted on Thursday an appeal by Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 11 others to death sentences they received in April over charges of inciting violence following the ouster of former President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.