The "Islamic State" group's affiliate in Egypt claims it has beheaded two men that it mistakenly described in a statement as priests, but were later identified by locals as leading religious figures from among Sinai’s Bedouins.

Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday adjourned to Dec. 10 the trial in the case known as ‘Rabaa Dispersal’, which involves many senior figures of the Muslim Brotherhood group, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's prosecution announced on Wednesday that its initial investigation into the death of a cart driver, whose family believes was tortured to death by police, revealed that the man died in an accident during a police chase.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Tuesday overturned sentences of death and life in prison served to former president Mohamed Morsi and other Muslim Brotherhood group leaders over breaking the Wadi Natroun Prison during the 2011 uprising, Youm7 reported.

The Egyptian parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee criticised at a Monday meeting a report issued earlier this month by the UK House of Commons' Foreign Affairs Committee on the outlawed-Muslim Brotherhood, saying it went out of its way to exonerate the group of the charge of terrorism.

The BBC has been forced to move a debate on Islam and politics from Morocco to another country because of problems over filming permissions, the broadcaster has said.

TV Presenter Islam el-Behery might be among the first batch of jailed youth who were granted pardon within 48 hours, a member of a committee reviewing prisoners’ status said.

Security forces in Upper Egypt’s governorate of Fayoum seized a stash of weapons that supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood were plotting to use ahead of planned anti-government protests, the interior ministry announced in a statement Thursday.

Muslim Brotherhood and their allies worldwide will undergo “dark days” following the accession of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, said Egyptian lawmaker Mostafa al Gendy.

The committee formed last week by the president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to review the cases of Egyptian youth detainees said on Wednesday that the final list it would send to the president for consideration would not include Muslim Brotherhood members.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese on Wednesday has received a delegation from the Russian Church, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s Giza Criminal court upheld life imprisonment sentences against three people, allegedly belong to the banned Muslim brotherhood group, over charges of burning a church in blue-collar district Kerdassa of Giza on Monday, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution has ordered the detention of 30 people for 15 days pending investigations into the failed assassination attempts on the country’s former top Muslim cleric Ali Gomaa and deputy prosecutor-general Zakareya Abdel-Aziz.

A Cairo criminal court handed on Saturday 15-year jail terms to 21 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi over 2013 violence-related charges.

A man, allegedly belong to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group was killed in a fire exchange with security forces in Cairo’s northern district of al Salam, the interior ministry announced in a statement Thursday.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese will meet with Singapore’s President Tony Tan Keng Yam on Wednesday to discuss the bilateral relations, Ahram stated.

Egypt on Monday marked with a church service a year since jihadists bombed a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a Red Sea resort, an attack that crippled the Arab country's economy.

Hani Salam escaped civil war in Syria and survived the journey from Egypt to Europe. But when he saw men with bushy long beards at a mosque near his current home in Cologne last November, he was worried.

Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld on Wednesday a life imprisonment sentence for Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie on incitement of deadly violence charges, in a first final ruling against the 73-year old in a series of retrials in various criminal cases.

Egyptian women's rights organisation New Women Foundation (NWF) has called on the education ministry to ensure that schoolgirls are not forced to wear the Islamic headscarf as part of the dress code in schools all over the country, said the campaign coordinator Lamya Lotfey.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation on Tuesday will begin examining an appeal presented by former president Mohamed Morsi against life imprisonment they had been handed on charges of espionage and collaboration with foreign organizations to plan attacks in Egypt, Youm7 reported.