Hamas is committed to the Egyptian brokered ceasefire agreement, Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of the Hamas movement Mousa Abu Marzouk said Sunday.

Israel launched two air strikes on Gaza late Friday night, in response to rocket fire from Gaza earlier in the day. No Palestinian organisation claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks.

They were accused of taking part in acts of violence in Assiut last year during which five churches, several police stations and a number of shops were set on fire. There were no reported casualties.

Palestinian factions held a meeting in Gaza on Thursday to announce a new political initiative that seeks to revitalise a unity government.

Nader Bakkar, responsible for the Nour Party media affairs, criticized the government on Thursday for what he accused of hastily issuing the electoral constituencies law.

The South Cairo Criminal Court directed Thursday an acquittal verdict for 30 defendants on charges of possessing bladed weapons during the clashes of the June 30 Revolution, Youm7 reported.

Egypt’s Pope Tawadros II expressed faith Wednesday that any project undertaken by Ethiopia wouldn’t harm anyone, in a clear nod to Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, a source of recent anxiety to Egypt.

An Egyptian administrative court yesterday overturned a decision by a special committee to seize the assets of the Muslim Brotherhood's leaders, Reuters reported.

Mohamed Soltan, the imprisoned son of prominent Muslim Brotherhood leader Salah Soltan, was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Qasr El-Aini Hospital on Tuesday night.

Al-Azhar University has decided to expel 71 students for their involvement in protests on campus, and suspended investigation with five others not proven to have participated in such acts.

Some 312 defendants including the Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie were referred Monday to the military prosecution for torching Ismailia’s court complex, in a retroactive application of an October decree on military trials, Youm7 reported.

A bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan has ended, police said Tuesday, with all six attackers dead.

Military spokesperson Mohamed Samir said in a statement on Tuesday that army troops killed 17 extremists in North Sinai in an exchange of fire, including three while trying to escape from a checkpoint and 14 during raids on their hideouts.

The Cairo Criminal Court resumed Monday the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and 35 co-defendants facing charges for leaking documents related to Egypt’s national security.

Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam released a statement Monday condemning the taking of hostages by an unknown militant in a café in Sydney, Australia.

A group of Islamist scholars criticised Egypt on Monday for seeking an Interpol arrest warrant for their leader, a Qatar-based cleric whose outspoken support for the Muslim Brotherhood contributed to a diplomatic rift between Gulf Arab states.

In homes and streets around Egypt, women are keeping alive a group the authorities are determined to crush. They teach Muslim Brotherhood values to children, organise its protests, preserve its networks, and take an ever more prominent role in politics.

A group of Muslim scholars have criticized Egypt for seeking an Interpol arrest warrant for a Qatar-based cleric who is Egyptian-born and an active supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

An estimated 600 minors are being held in a detention camp in the town of Banha, North of Cairo, according to the Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence.

Muslim and Christian theologians agreed to promote the concept of brotherhood among Christians, Muslims and adherents of other religions in the face of terrorism carried out in the name of Islam.

The lawyer for ex-president Mohamed Morsi called on Sunday for the testimony of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the espionage case of his client.