Egyptian authorities have arrested an Islamist militant jailed over the assassination of Anwar Sadat, for plotting bomb attacks on behalf of al Qaeda since his release from prison in 2012, security sources said on Tuesday.

Just three months after the ousting of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi, it appears Egyptian authorities are taking a big step toward protecting the freedom of worship for the nation’s Christian community by lifting major restrictions on the construction of new churches.

A Coptic Orthodox bishop said that Western military powers should not intervene in the region in order to come to the aid of persecuted Christians.

Three police officers were killed early Monday morning in an attack by armed assailants on a security checkpoint in the Daqahleya Governorate.

Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood students protested at Al-Azhar University in Nasr City on Monday in front of the university’s administrative building demanding the release of students held in recent protests as well as deposed President Mohamed Morsy.

Gunmen killed three policemen in Egypt's Daqahliya, a Nile Delta city northeast of Cairo, on Monday, said an Interior Ministry statement.

The Cairo Security Directorate made a security plan for the Ettehadiya events trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsy and decided that it would be held at the Tora Police Institute.

The media spokesman for the Legal Team for Coup Victims said Monday that ousted president Mohamed Morsi will not recognise the court’s authority.

The jihadist group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (Supporter of Jerusalem) revealed on Saturday the identity of the suicide bomber whom it claimed had carried out the attempt on the life of Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim, alongside an alleged footage of the explosion.

An Egyptian security official says a feud between two Coptic Christian families in the country's south has left five people dead and nine wounded.

A suicide bomber who tried to kill the Egyptian interior minister has been revealed as a former army officer by the jihadist group which claimed responsibility for the attack.

High-ranking sources within the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt have revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat the party’s plans to mobilize proponents and supporters of ousted president Mohamed Mursi ahead of his trial, which is scheduled to begin on November 4.

Why is it happening? Because it can and without repercussions. To be sure it is easy to make Barack Obama a scapegoat. Surely, the “president-who-is-not-responsible-for-anything-that-happens-during-his-tenure” cannot be accountable for the militant actions of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

A Muslim Brotherhood-led coalition is to hold a week of protests dubbed 'Suez resilience, our way to Jerusalem' beginning on Friday to condemn what they describe as "the bloody military coup" against Mohamed Morsi.

The National Coalition to Support Legitimacy announced that it would hold protests on Friday to demonstrate against the “Israeli attacks on Al-Aqsa mosque” and the “Zionist attacks on the Sinai peninsula”.

AFP – Opponents of the coup that toppled Egypt’s elected president Mohamed Morsi in July warned Wednesday the country was headed towards civil war and urged the international community to pay attention.

The Mansheya Misdemeanour Court of Appeals suspended on Wednesday a verdict served to Alexandrian political activist Hassan Mustafa in January 2012.

The National Alliance to Support Legitimacy called for marches in Cairo and Giza on Firday under the slogan “Friday of Durability.”

Several church officials are drawing a relation between the Warraq church shooting and other political incidents ongoing since ouster of deposed President Mohamed Morsy, suspecting the Muslim Brotherhood could be behind the incident.

Two NGOs condemned the continuation of sectarian attacks and the performance of the Ministry of Interior after the attack on a wedding at the Virgin Mary Church in the Giza neighbourhood of Al-Warraq on Sunday.

Ihab Shiha, president of the Salafi Asala Party, said that a delegation of jurists and politicians flew to Geneva on Tuesday to meet with officials of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the European Parliament in order to expose the crimes of the coup, as he put it.