A Islamic State-affiliated militant group has vowed to carry out more attacks in Tunisia following a deadly assault on a Tunis museum earlier this month for which it had claimed responsibility.

Egypt’s Mufti Shawqi Allam said in a statement on Monday that the duty his country performs to provide security and fight division and sectarianism is essential, not secondary or optional.

The wife and son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy have been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 5,000 EGP ($655) for allegedly attacking a prison guard in Tora prison.

Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Sunday the listing of several prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders as "terrorists", including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie.

Three Egyptian laborers, detained by militants in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, have been freed by the Libyan army, the state-run MENA reported Sunday.

Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for a Saturday Cairo University explosion that injured nine persons.

Attorney General Hisham Barakat ordered Sunday to list former Muslim Brotherhood group’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and a number of the banned-group’s leaders as terrorist per a February anti-terrorism decree Youm7 reported.

More than 70 German women have made their way to ISIS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz - BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

“Look at me, stand up straight, this is going on Facebook'; an unseen police personnel says while recording a group of men and women standing facing a cement wall and raising their hands in what appears to be a warehouse; sawdust is littered on the floor.

Egypt participated with naval and air forces in the Saudi military operation on the Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen Thursday, a source told Reuters.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb refuted claims that the Al-Azhar advises people to read the Brotherhood books.

The Muslim Brotherhood has strongly condemned the signing of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) agreement.

An official at a Suez police station was shot dead early Thursday during a chase with masked men which also left one of the assailants killed, the state agency MENA reported.

A metro driver suffered burns to his leg after assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at his cabin in a metro train Wednesday, reported Youm7.

The new statute for the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox church of Alexandria’s election, set by the Holy Synod, states the age of voters during papal elections should at least be 25 years old.

A 10-year-old girl was killed on Wednesday when an explosive device detonated outside her school in Fayoum south of Cairo, a top security official said.

Militants loyal to Islamic State killed five members of a force loyal to the government that controls Tripoli and wounded two others in the coastal city of Sirte, aTripoli-based news agency said on Wednesday, citing a military spokesman.

A former Jihadist has slammed the Islamic State’s excommunication mentality, saying that its members are “as good as donkeys” at interpretation of the Quran.

Two conscripts were killed when an improvised explosive device planted on the side of a road in North Sinai detonated on Tuesday, security sources said.

In an alleged leaked document from the Egyptian Cabinet entitled “urgent-top secret,” the government asks the minister of agriculture to hunt down “sleeper-cells” of the Muslim Brotherhood at the ministry and to train staff on security tasks “to overcome the scarcity of security elements” in different government installations.

Canada plans to expand its mission against Islamic State militants by sending fighter bombers to attack targets in Syria as well as Iraq, two well placed political sources said on Monday.