Suspected militants from the Somali-led Shebab Islamist group killed at least five people in a roadside bomb attack, police said Tuesday.

Sport Utility Vehicles have been banned in certain areas in Sinai per a Sunday decision by Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab amid efforts to prevent militant attacks in the restive peninsula.

At least 13 people, among them a child, were killed in Syrian government raids on the Islamic State group-held town of Al-Bab on Monday, a monitor said.

A string of coordinated attacks on military checkpoints and a police station in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid is "moving in the same direction" as that of Islamic State fighters, an analyst said.

Giza prosecutors referred on Monday the editor-in-chief of an alleged pro-Muslim Brotherhood website to criminal trial for charges of “disseminating false news” and “instigating against the government”.

Three leaders of an Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group blamed for a spate of violence in Tunisia were among five "terrorists" killed last week in a security raid, the interior minister has said.

Iraqi forces retook two villages in Anbar on Monday as part of their operations against the Islamic State group in the western province, security officials said.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced two defendants to three years in jail over charges of rioting and violence charges outside the Shura Council in November of 2013.

Gunmen suspected to be gang members shot dead five local residents at the weekend near Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, the police said on Monday.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a car bomb that exploded outside the Italian Consulate in Cairo on Saturday, killing one person and injuring ten.

Egypt’s army spokesperson Bridger General Mohamed Samir announced on Sunday that the army had killed 252 alleged militants in raids in North Sinai between 1 and 11 July.

A bomb explosion in a tunnel near Aleppo Citadel in Syria on Sunday damaged a wall of the fortress that is part of the UNESCO-listed Old City, state media and a monitor reported.

At least 18 people were killed Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack near a military base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, where Afghan and foreign soldiers are stationed, authorities said.

Egyptian security forces have detained 21 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in fresh sweeps, bringing the total number of group members detained over the past week to 231, according to the Interior Ministry.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria announced on Wednesday that the Coptic church would stop holding its weekly meeting at Cairo's Abbasiya Cathedral, in view of renovations to the building towards its golden jubilee in 2018.

A police detective in Beni Suef died early Thursday morning when unknown attackers shot him in the neck and chest, according to the Health Ministry in the province.

An explosive device went off in North Sinai's al-Arish town on Thursday, targeting a security patrol and injuring 18 policemen, reported the state news agency MENA.

Former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh has urged young members of his party to stay in Egypt, despite the increased number of arrests of anti-government activists.

Pope Francis on Wednesday praised Bolivia's social reforms to spread wealth under leftist President Evo Morales and urged the world not to view prosperity as material wealth, which he warned only breeds corruption and conflict.

An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced in absentia TV presenter Moataz Matar to ten years in jail and a fine of LE 700 on charges of inciting to overthrow the regime and spreading false news, a judicial source told Aswat Masriya.

Same-sex marriage is a “deviation from normality”, the head of the Egyptian Church said on Monday as defenders of the practice push for its legalization across the globe.