Suppression of the Gezi Park protests, press censorship, erosion of the constitution. But Erdogan and ‘his’ AKP party are still popular in Turkey ahead of Sunday’s elections. Daniel Heinrich reports from Kayseri.

A Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for insulting Muslim clerics has won the European Union’s prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights.

A Nour Party parliamentary candidate was hospitalised on Tuesday after two men forced him out of his car and attacked him.

The Islamic State group advanced on Tuesday to the outskirts of a major government military stronghold in northern Syria, a monitoring group said.

A woman wearing the niqab was caught trying to vote using another citizen’s national ID in a polling station in Kerdasa, Giza on Tuesday. The incident was reported and confirmed by several obvservers, including the state-affiliated National Council for Human Rights (NCHR).

The world's oldest bible is among 200 objects tracing Egypt's religious evolution in an exhibition at London's British Museum, which opens Friday and spans the 1,200 years since Cleopatra's death.

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 14 people in an overnight attack on a village in southeastern Niger, security sources said on Wednesday.

The chairman of the Salafi-led Nour Party has said that the low turnout by voters during the runoff elections in the first round of parliamentary elections serves as “a strong message to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi”.

The Court of Administrative Justice lifted the ban on Islamic preacher Mohamed Gibril on Tuesday. Cairo International Airport authorities prevented Gibril from flying to London in July on charges of inciting against the country and the president. He filed a lawsuit in which he said that he usually travels during Ramadan to Islamic capitals and western countries to lead prayers in major mosques and Islamic centers, then comes back to hold the special prayers on the twenty-seventh of the holy month at Amr ibn al-Aas mosque.

A man was sentenced to three years in prison for joining the Muslim Brotherhood’s local branch after it was banned.

Saudi Arabia says one of its citizens carried out the suicide bombing at a mosque in the country's south the previous night — an attack for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

Former secretary general of Muslim Brotherhood’s dissolved Freedom and Justice Party Hussein Ibrahim was arrested Monday evening in the Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh, Youm7 reported.

A total of 25 militants were killed in exchanges of fire with security forces over the past two days, according to a statement by the armed forces Sunday.

A police officer was shot in the shoulder by unknown assailants late Sunday in the Delta governorate of Sharqeya.

A gunfire exchange in Ismailia on Sunday left three suspected militants dead and three security personnel injured including two police officers and one soldier, according to official sources.

Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has confirmed the death sentence for the popular Shiite leader Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on “sedition” charges. The sheikh’s life now depends on the possibility of a royal pardon by King Salman.

Extremist militants were behind the assassination of a Salafist Nour Party parliamentary candidate in North Sinai last Saturday, the interior ministry said in a statement on Monday.

A Muslim Brotherhood business mogul is being interrogated over his affiliation with the outlawed group and the financing of its activities, prosecutors have said, refuting earlier extensive media reports which said he is accused of black market manipulations that caused the Egyptian pound’s value to decline.

The number of Egyptian deaths from a stampede during the Islamic hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia last month have jumped to 190, according to Egypt’s Religious Endowment Ministry.

Al-Nour Salafi party has demanded an official investigation into the killing Saturday of the only candidate they have fielded for the parliamentary elections in North Sinai.

A total of 25 militants were killed in exchanges of fire with security forces over the past two days, according to a statement by the armed forces Sunday.