Around 250 Syrian civilians are feared kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State militants group on a cement factory east of Damascus, residents told AFP on Thursday.

A man allegedly implicated in a number of bombings in Giza was arrested in his apartment where explosives were seized, a security source told Youm7 in a Wednesday report.

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Al-Qaeda's North African branch has confirmed the death of a prominent leader of the network's Syrian affiliate, Abu Firas al-Suri, in a U.S. air strike in Syria on Sunday.

Dar Al-Ifta’s Islamophobia observatory denounced the running over of a Muslim woman during an anti-Islam rally in the Sint-Jans-Molenbeek municipality of Brussels on Tuesday.

Assistant Security Director of North Sinai Yasser Hafez was hospitalized Wednesday after suffering shrapnel wounds after a roadside bomb detonated under his armored vehicle west of Arish city, Youm7 reported.

The Islamic State militant group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in the West, naming London, Berlin and Rome as possible targets.

Assailants have killed a senior Saudi security officer whose body was found west of the capital Riyadh, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Tuesday, in an attack claimed by the hardline Islamic State group.

A Giza criminal court ordered two senior Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya leaders, detained for almost two years, to be released on bail pending trial for charges of inciting violence.

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday.

A Saudi police colonel was shot dead in the Riyadh region on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack.

Dar al-Iftaa of Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to issue “sober fatwas” and overcome differences in views in an endeavor to confront extremism, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Ismailia Criminal Court resumed Monday a trial session of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 104 other co-defendants in the case known as the “Ismailia incidents,” Youm7 reported.

The Czech Republic will send back to Iraq a group of Iraqi Christians who tried to move on to Germany instead of staying in the country, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on Sunday.

A prominent leader in Syrian al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front was killed on Sunday in what rebel sources said appeared to be a US drone strike in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.

Some male Muslim students in Switzerland will no longer need to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that has caused an uproar and consternation in the country.

A Muslim family is requesting a formal apology from United Airlines after being removed from a flight at Chicago O'Hare International Airport last month.

Islamic State (IS) group has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

A number of Islamic books in English were delivered by Egypt’s ambassador to New Zealand to head of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ,) MENA reported Sunday.

Former state TV anchor Tarek Abdel Gaber will return to Egypt on Wednesday, according to his lawyer Tarek Al-Awady.

An Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia says its militants detonated two explosive devices in front of a police station in the city of al-Dalam, setting fire to three police vehicles.