Unknown armed assailants opened fire on a security checkpoint in Arish’s Sheikh Zuweid neighborhood in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday.

The Hamas Prime Minister of Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, discussed Palestinian prisoners with Egyptian intelligence in a phone call Saturday night.

Pro-Morsi students organised a press conference at Rabaa Al-Adaweya on Sunday in parallel to the General Conference of the Egypt Student Union (ESU,) to demand recognition of the 8 July Republican Guard clashes

Egyptian prosecutors have frozen the assets of senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders and other prominent Islamists as part of investigations into the incitement of violence at protests.

A man seriously injured in clashes on Friday 5 July has died of his wounds, according to a statement released by the Tamarod campaign on Saturday. This latest death brings the death toll following clashes on the 6th October Bridge to four.

Egypt’s authorities thwarted an attempt to smuggle a container that included army uniforms and empty gun shells from China on Sunday.

More demonstrators flocked to the sit-in at Cairo's Rabaa al-Adaweya Mosque on Thursday in preparation for a million-man demonstration on Friday which the National Coalition for Supporting Legitimacy called for.

The Brotherhood Without Violence movement, founded by a number of young Muslim Brotherhood members, has proposed to stop violence in exchange for the release of Mohamed Morsy, Hazem Abu Ismail, and all Brotherhood leaders.

A Coptic Christian man was found decapitated on Thursday in Egypt's Sinai peninsula five days after he was kidnappped by gunmen, security officials and witnesses told AFP.

Prosecutors will investigate allegations that Egypt's ousted president escaped from prison during the 2011 revolution with help from the Palestinian militant group Hamas, officials said Thursday.

The Brotherhood is planning three consecutive Fridays of large scale protests in Cairo to build pressure on the military.

Egypt’s Public Prosecution ordered on Wednesday the arrest and interrogation of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie over accusations of inciting violence during clashes outside the Republican Guard headquarters on Monday, which left 59 dead

A new Islamist alliance consisted of ousted President Mohamed Mursi‘s supporters and goes by the name the "National Coalition to Support legitimacy" has organized a march for Wednesday.

The U.S. government has been quietly funding anti-Muslim Brotherhood political activists in Egypt for the past few years, Al Jazeera reports in a story being touted as an exclusive.

Authorities escalated their crackdown Wednesday on the Muslim Brotherhood, ordering the arrest of its spiritual leader for inciting violence this week in which more than 50 people were killed in clashes with security forces.

Evidence gathered by Amnesty International suggests that the Egyptian security forces used excessive force against supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsy since his overthrow.

The Muslim Brotherhood rejected a decree issued by Egypt's interim head of state overnight, which set a timetable for new elections and set up a mechanism to amend the constitution.

Masked gunmen opened fire at Mar Mina Church in Port Said's al-Manakh early Tuesday and managed to get away, according to state-run news agency MENA. No casualties were reported.

As tens of thousands of supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi continue their sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City, several marches were held in the capital – and in different parts of the country – to mourn the dozens of pro-Morsi protesters killed Monday outside Presidential Guard headquarters in Cairo.

The influential leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Britain announced three days of prayer as Egypt's minority Coptic Christians feared more violence in the aftermath of the mass killing of more than 50 Islamist protesters in clashes with Egyptian security forces.

Port Rafah authorities will open the Rafah border crossing Wednesday temporarily from 10am to 2.30pm to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan.