Ten people were injured Saturday in clashes between Muslims and Christians in the Upper Egyptian province of Assiut, a security source said.

The Salafi Front announced Monday that they would boycott the forthcoming presidential elections, describing it as “illegitimate,” reported Youm7.

Jamaa al-Islamiya leader Mohsen Bakry was arrested on Saturday at Cairo International Airport while trying to flee to Malaysia via Oman.

Beit el-Senary in Cairo held an open day Saturday under the slogan “Coptic heritage between reality and hope” to celebrate International Day for Monuments and Sites.

The Bandar Kafr al-Sheikh district court, headed by Judge Ali Barg, handed 17-year sentences to 12 Muslim Brotherhood leaders and sentenced another to 20 years in prison.

Public Prosecutor Hesham Barakat decided on Saturday to refer Vice-Chief of the Salafi Dawa Yasser Borhamy to the Cairo Appeal Prosecution for interrogations over contempt of religions.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb congratulated the Palestinian people for the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas. He also expressed support for any steps that contribute to restoring Palestine's legitimate rights, as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state.

An Egyptian court will on Monday pass final judgment on 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters sentenced to death last month, in a case that has provoked outrage among Western governments and rights groups.

Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al Qaeda, expressed solidarity in a recent video with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and urged his followers to conduct kidnappings of westerners, according to the SITE Jihadist-monitoring service.

A Cairo city court sentenced 10 students and three professors from al-Azhar University to three years in prison on charges of illegal protesting, Egyptian daily al-Ahram reported on Wednesday.

Prosecution witnesses in the jailbreak trial of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammad Mursi on Wednesday accused members of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah of attacking Egyptian prisons during the 2011 uprising.

Beni Suef Governor Magdi al-Beteity, said Muslim Brotherhood supporters in al-Maymoun village set a policeman’s brother's car on fire as authorities were arresting some of them per a prosecution order.

Former interior minister Mahmoud Wagdy gave his testimony on Wednesday in the trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi on charges of breaking out of Wadi Al-Natroun prison during the January 2011 uprising.

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood activist Ahmed al-Mogheer praised the death of Brigadier Ahmed Zaki, who was killed on Wednesday as bomb blasted under his car at 6 October City.

Assiut Security Director Tarek Nasr told Al-Hayat channel on Wednesday that 20 Brotherhood students were arrested for possessing three bags of fireworks and Molotov cocktails at Al-Azhar University in Assiut.

A Cairo criminal court imposed a media ban on the espionage trial of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi during Tuesday's session.

A Central Security conscript and a student were injured on Tuesday in clashes between Brotherhood students of Minya University and security forces that tried to disperse them with tear gas after blocking the Cairo-Aswan highway in front of the university gates.

France is to unveil policies to stop its citizens joining the Syrian civil war, a government source said on Tuesday, aiming to prevent young French Muslims becoming radicalized and posing a threat to their home country.

Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and pro-Muslim Brotherhood figure Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi denied on Sunday transferring his place of residence from Doha to Tunisia.

Qatar will no longer fund the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) after a deal reached between Doha and Gulf States, said Egypt’s Brotherhood Without Violence movement Sunday.

Chairperson of the International Union of the Muslim Scholars Yusuf al-Qaradawy contactedthe Saudi government through mediators to clarify his viewpoint regarding the Saudi-Qatari differences.