Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has threatened to break off a unity agreement with Hamas if the Islamist movement does not allow the government to operate properly in the Gaza Strip.

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo are set to issue a resolution on Sunday backing Iraqi and U.S. efforts to confront Islamic State insurgents who have overrun large areas of Iraq and Syria and declared a cross-border caliphate, diplomats said.

The body of a police conscript who died at a training camp in North Sinai shows signs of bruising, the forensic medical authority revealed on Saturday.

Pope Tawadros II (see image), who became the 118th leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church on November 19, 2012, arrived in Toronto this evening to officially begin his month-long Canadian visit. His first trip to Canada will include the consecration of the first Coptic cathedral in North America, Markham’s St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church, visits to other parishes across Canada, meetings with religious leaders, and the delivery of a lecture at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.

Security forces have arrested a journalist who they say filmed a video of an alleged anti-police armed group, state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.

Romanian Christians are familiar with persecution in their home country but they didn’t expect to encounter it in America.

In a video posted online on Wednesday, the Sinai-based militant group Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for killing 11 security personnel, including a police officer, in an attack in North Sinai the day before.

US President Barack Obama called for an international front against jihadists in Iraq and Syria after they beheaded a second American reporter, as Britain and France weighed military action. "We know that if we are joined by the international community, we can continue to shrink ISIL's sphere of influence, its effectiveness, its financing, its military capabilities," said Obama, referring to the Islamic State (IS).

Alexandria Court of Urgent Matters on Wednesday postponed to the beginning of October a lawsuit filed by the Popular Front Against the Brotherhoodization of Egypt calling for the dissolution of all religious parties.

The Cairo University Brotherhood students ended their demonstration on Wednesday. They were protesting the expulsion of their colleagues and the banning of political organizations on campus.

A police officer was shot dead on Wednesday by gunmen in the Al-Obour district of the city of Arish in North Sinai.

The administrative court banned on Wednesday the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Rabaa satellite channel and al-Jazeera's Egyptian channel.

Aliaa Nasr Awad, who filmed the Helwan Brigades, is now under investigation for membership in a terrorist group by the Supreme State Security Prosecution after being arrested in Alexandria, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

The United States plans to fight Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East and will seek justice for the killing of American journalist Steven Sotloff, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.

Pope Tawadros II, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt visited the World Council of Churches (WCC) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday 1 September. In the presence of representatives from ecumenical and international organizations, Tawadros participated in morning worship on 1 September followed by a meeting with staff and a conversation with the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit.

The Islamic State terrorist group has promised "surprises inside Egypt" as authorities said they are ready to confront the threat posed by the al-Qaeda-inspired group that has made advances in several areas of Iraq and Syria.

The Dar al-Ifta warned that the Western media fuel conflict and portray the crimes of terrorist groups, who falsely claim that they speak in the name of Islam, as if it is a war between the Orient and the Occident.

"Extremists" were behind an attack on a security convoy in North Sinai which left 11 killed on Tuesday, said Sinai Deputy Security Director Ali Azazi.

An attack on a convoy killed 11 members of the Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security and medical sources said.

Minister of Endowments Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa warned Monday of grave consequences if there is no “firm stand against recently released Muslim Brotherhood leaders”.

Former Egyptian MP Mohamed al-Omda said on Sunday that he will begin approaching the military-backed authorities and the Muslim Brotherhood group with a reconciliation bid he prepared following his recent release from detainment.