The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral tent north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed 16 people and wounded 34 others.

The private bodyguard of the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was arrested on Monday, reported Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website.

An Islamic mission center (Da’wah) of the Ministry of Religious Endowment will be established in Kerdasa, a blue-collar town in Giza and a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, to “control violence” in the area, Youm7 reported Sunday

Al-Azhar University, Egypt's largest Islamic educational institute, expelled on Sunday 51 students for involvement in pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests.

Two defendants affiliated with the banned-Muslim Brotherhood group were referred to be tried before a military court after they were accused of blocking a railway in an August march in Minya in Upper Egypt, MENA reported Monday.

Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Mohamed El-Beltagy was sentenced to six years in jail for contempt of court Saturday during a session of the prison break trial that also involves Egypt's former president Mohamed Mursi.

Al-Azhar University, Egypt's largest Islamic educational institute, expelled on Sunday 51 students for involvement in pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests.

Security forces defused a bomb Sunday on Gamaa bridge in Egypt's Giza governorate. No injuries or deaths were reported, sources told Ahram Online.

Egyptian prosecutors referred Friday journalist and writer Fatima Naoot to a misdemeanors court on charges of disdaining religion, after she was critical of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha tradition of slaughtering sheep.

The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organisation said on Sunday.

Two women's rights campaigners detained in Saudi Arabia have been transferred to a special tribunal for "terrorism", activists said on Thursday after the women appeared in court.

Seven Muslim Brotherhood "supporters" were referred to the prosecution on Thursday in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate, on charges of planning "terrorist" operations during Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Catholic Copts in Egypt are marking Christmas amid tight security after threats from Islamist extremist groups.

The Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) militant jihadi group released a video Tuesday showing the execution of two civilians ABM claimed were army informers.

The media adviser of Egypt's legitimate President Morsi shows understanding for Qatar's about turn with regard to the Egyptian Revolution according to the Muslim Brotherhood official website.

Egypt’s al-Azhar University announced on Wednesday the permanent expulsion of 21 female students it accused of committing on-campus violence.

The armed forces killed five "terrorists" during raids conducted over the past three days in North Sinai, its spokesman said on Wednesday.

The Islamic State group on Wednesday shot down a warplane from the US-led coalition over northern Syria, a monitoring group said, with the jihadists claiming to have captured a Jordanian pilot.

Pilgrims from across the world descended on Jesus's birthplace in Bethlehem Wednesday to begin the global celebration of Christmas after a violence-plagued year brought suffering to many Middle Eastern Christians.

Christmas masses will be held at Catholic churches in Egypt on Thursday evening, amid tight security measures by the Interior Ministry and armed forces.

Egypt's top prosecutor referred a man to the criminal court on Tuesday for "threatening employees at embassies and consulates" in the country, two weeks after the closure of two embassies for security reasons.