Millions of Muslims across the world celebrated the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday Monday, which marks the end of the monthlong fast of Ramadan.

The Muslim Brotherhood ordered its members on Sunday to prepare public spaces in the squares of all governorates for the Eid prayers irrespective of any warnings from SECURITY AGENCIES or the endowments ministry.

Whoever kills in the name of Islam “does not belong to it” as they commit violent action the religion does not call for, Minister of Religious Endowments (Awqaf) Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa said during his sermon after the Eid prayer Monday, Youm7 reported.

An Egyptian court sentenced the spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party to a suspended sentence of two years, commutable on payment of a fine of LE5,000.

The Muslim Brotherhood ordered its members on Sunday to prepare public spaces in the squares of all governorates for the Eid prayers irrespective of any warnings from security agencies or the endowments ministry.

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas announced on Saturday evening that it would not accept a truce with Israel unless Israeli troops withdraw from Gaza and displaced Palestinian residents are allowed to return to their homes.

Muslim Brotherhood supporters protested at a number of governorates in response to calls by the pro-Mohamed Morsy National Alliance to Support Legitimacy for a fresh week of demonstrations

One of the Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt last month for up to 10 years on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation will appeal his conviction, the family of imprisoned Australian journalist Peter Greste said on Friday.

The lawsuit was filed to ban the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members from recruitment in the Egyptian army and police is unconstitutional, said Essam el-Eslamboly, a constitutional jurist Thursday.

Chaldean website ankawa.com says a university professor was killed after speaking out against anti-Christian persecution. Meanwhile, the Islamic State has set the jizyah at 450 dollars

Mostafa Ezzat Humaydan, the imam of Amr Ibn al-Aas Mosque, was referred to investigation for letting another imam, Mohamed Gebril, take his place on Wednesday evening without coordinating with the Endowments Ministry.

Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 undergo female genital mutilation, a UN official said Thursday.

Jihadist militants have taken over a monastery in northern Iraq, one of the country's best-known Christian landmarks, and expelled its resident monks, a cleric and residents said Monday. Islamic State (IS) fighters stormed Mar (Saint) Behnam, a fourth-century monastery run by the Syriac Catholic church near the predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh, on Sunday, the sources said. "You have no place here anymore, you have to leave immediately," a member of the Syriac clergy quoted the Sunni militants as telling the monastery's residents.

The Egyptian court that jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste and two other Al-Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists says "the devil guided" the group to spread false news defaming the country.

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an overnight suicide bombing in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad which killed 33 people, one of the deadliest recent attacks in the Iraqi capital.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Tuesday the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leading figures Mohamed al-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy and others for allegedly kidnapping and torturing two policemen during a Muslim Brotherhood sit-in to 4 August.

The Egyptian army launched a security crackdown on Tuesday night in several areas in North Sinai, killing two "extremists", the army spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday.

The Cairo Criminal Court decided Tuesday to adjourn the trial of Muslim Brotherhood leaders Mohamed el-Beltagy and Safwat Hegazy to Aug. 4 to discuss the defendants’ request to change judges.

Azhar University will allocate 180 million EGP to develop the faculties that do not have buildings, such as the Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine in Damietta. It will also inaugurate branches for the university at Sinai and Minya, head of Azhar University Osama al-Abd told Youm7 Tuesday.

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for the attack on al-Farafra checkpoint in New Valley that left 22 army personnel and border guards dead.

The death toll in Gaza rose to 517 on Monday after Israeli forces attacked Al-Aqsa hospital following the bloodiest day for six years in Palestine.