Efforts to secure the release of Lebanese soldiers and policemen held captive by the Nusra Front have been obstructed by last minute demands from the Syrian al Qaeda-linked group, the head of a Lebanese security agency was quoted as saying on Monday.

Tunisian security forces arrested two suspected Islamist militants late on Sunday and seized a cache of weapons and explosives, the interior ministry said.

Boko Haram activists raided a border village in Niger, killing four people and torching some 50 homes, a local official said on Monday.

The United States and its allies have conducted 15 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement Monday.

Nageh Ibrahim, an ex-jihadist and one of the founders of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, talks about ISIS, its ideology and evolution, and gives his analysis of the phenomenon of Islamist extremism that is currently plaguing the region.

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that Pope Tawadros II did not obtain an Israeli visa for his visit to Jerusalem last Thursday, responding to domestic criticisms which said the visit was a violation of a longtime popular rejection of normal ties with Israel.

A controversial visit by Egypt’s Coptic pope to Jerusalem last Thursday is still garnering criticism among Egypt’s elite, the latter whom believe the leader is violating a longstanding popular opposition to normal ties with Israel.

An Islamic State affiliate in Egypt has claimed responsibility for an attack which killed four policemen in Cairo's twin city, Giza Saturday morning.

Protected by the heaviest security ever seen on his trips, Pope Francis on Sunday preached reconciliation in the divided Central African Republic, a nation racked by bloodshed between Muslims and Christians.

Head of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II made an “exceptional” trip on Thursday to Jerusalem through Tel Aviv to head the funeral prayer for Metropolitan Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Near East Bishop Abraham.

The head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church headed Thursday to Jerusalem to attend the funeral of the holy city’s archbishop, a move that breaks with a longtime ban maintained by the church on visiting the city before the end of Israeli occupation.

Eighteen people were killed and 100 homes torched in an attack in the dead of night by Nigeria's Boko Haram fighters on a village near southeastern Bosso, local authorities told AFP on Thursday.

Germany plans to send Tornado reconnaissance jets to support the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria, the defence spokesman of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives said Thursday.

Pope Francis said on Thursday dialogue between religions in Africa was essential to teach young people that violence and hate in God's name was unjustified, speaking in Kenya which has been the victim of a spate of Islamist militant massacres.

Pope Francis flew out of Rome on Wednesday, bound for Kenya on the first leg of a landmark trip to Africa that is fraught with security risks.

The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed the deadly bombing of a presidential guard bus in the Tunisian capital in a statement shared on jihadist social media accounts.

Deputy chairman of the Salafi Dawa Yasser Borhamy accused the Interior Ministry, Muslim Brotherhood and the media of undermining the Nour Party's popularity during parliamentary elections.

An Al-Azhar Faculty of Islamic Sciences will be established in the United Arab Emirates per an agreement signed Wednesday, Al-Azhar announced.

Experts are in disagreement over the extent of the effect of Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian military aircraft on both the French attempt to form a large coalition including Russia and the US to fight “Islamic State” (IS), and the conflict in Syria.

Four people -- a judge, a prosecutor, and two security personnel -- were killed on Tuesday and 14 were injured in North Sinai's restive city of Al-Arish during attacks on a hotel where judges supervising the ongoing parliamentary polls were residing.

Since last month, US warplanes have struck Islamic State's oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates has cut the group's black-market earnings from oil by about a third.