Jihadists who occupied eastern Lebanon's Arsal near the Syrian border have agreed to leave in 24 hours and to release military and police hostages, Sunni clerics said on Wednesday.

The trial of leading Muslim Brotherhood figures, including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, for the violence outside the Brotherhood’s headquarters in 2013 was postponed on Tuesday to 16 August.

An Egyptian court sent on Tuesday 16 defendants to 10 years in maximum security prison for attempting to break into al-Waily police station last September.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi hinted on Tuesday at readiness to accept the presence of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Thanks to God, and thanks to the selfless sacrifices of the heroes of the resistance and the steadfastness of the great people of Gaza, the resistance has successfully foiled the atrocious aggression by the most powerful army in the region, and caused it heavy losses in soldiers and officers. Losses that this supposedly powerful army tried to cover up with horrid brutal massacres of unarmed Gaza civilians including children, women and the elderly, and the destruction of homes, mosques, hospitals and civilian facilities. At present, it is trying to pull away from the borders of the Gaza Strip in order to avoid further losses.

Human Rights Watch on Monday accused Israel of killing civilians as they attempted to flee a stricken neighbourhood of Gaza, in what it said would amount to a war crime.

At least 11 "terrorists" were killed in a security crackdown in several areas in North Sinai, the army spokesperson said in a statement on Monday.

Egypt is pressing for a 72-hour Gaza ceasefire to be held Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after Hamas accused Israel of trying to scuttle Cairo truce talks.

The Administrative Court decided on Monday to issue a verdict in 10 lawsuits demanding the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) on 6 August.

The South Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday postponed the trial of Mohamed al-Zawahiri, brother of the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, and 67 others to 9 August due to a malfunction in the microphone, as the judge could not hear the defendants from inside the glass dock.

The Egyptian Popular Current – the political movement of former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi – has denied accusations that one of its members, Amr Saleh, belongs to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

An Egyptian criminal court on Sunday postponed the case against the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and a number of the group's top members for inciting murder outside of a Giza mosque last year to 7 August.

The Salafist Nour Party will delay the announcement of its stance on the forthcoming parliamentary elections until the issuance of the law of dividing governorates, said party spokesperson Nader Bakar Sunday.

The trial of over 50 leading Muslim Brotherhood members, including the group's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie, on charges of setting up a "control room" to direct violence and chaos across the country during last summer's upheaval has been adjourned by a Cairo criminal court to 16 August.

Jihadists raised their black flag in Iraq’s northern town of Sinjar Sunday in a second straight day of advances against Kurdish forces, sparking mass displacement the U.N. called a humanitarian tragedy.

The jihadist Islamic State has imposed a strict dress code for women in eastern Syria, forbidding them from showing any part of their bodies, a monitoring group said on Thursday.

Militants fired gunshots Thursday on the checkpoint centralized outside the National Security building in Suez governorate, Youm7 reported.

A fierce battle between Syrian Kurds and Islamic State jihadists has killed nearly 50 fighters from both sides as the Kurds seized several IS POSITIONS, a monitoring group said Thursday.

Women in Damietta are forbidden from receiving communion if they are wearing trousers or make-up, according to new rules issued by Bishop Bishoy of Damietta, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Some leaders from the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy, formed to support the legitimacy of toppled President Mohamed Morsy, called on its supporters to abandon their peaceful tactics in protests scheduled for 14 August on the anniversary of Rabaa al-Adaweya and al-Nahda sit-in dispersals, adding it is their last chance to confront the current regime.

The Sunday service had been taking place in a morning of quietness and calm, a rare chance of reflection amid the turbulence of war. That ended as the last prayers were being held, the sound of air strikes and tank rounds echoing not far from the church: the ‘humanitarian ceasefire’ was over.