Police probing the murder of three Muslim students by a North Carolina man said Wednesday they were studying whether the slayings were racially motivated, as thousands gathered to mourn the killings and denounce intolerance.

A war of statements heated up after Nedaa Masr Coalition spokesman accused the Nour Party of clearing the Sadat City constituency in favor of former Mubarak-era iron and steel tycoon and former ruling National Democratic Party leader Ahmed Ezz.

Al-Azhar, the centre of Islamic learning in Egypt, on Thursday condemned the killings of three young Muslims by a gunman in the United States as a "terrorist and racist" act.

The Port Said Criminal Court ordered on Wednesday former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and high ranking police officers, including the Minister of Interior Mohamed Ibrahim, to testify in the Port Said prison clashes, state media reported.

An Egyptian court ordered the retrial of 36 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood who had been sentenced to death in a mass trial that included the group's leader last year, judicial sources said on Wednesday.

International media has a “great ethical responsibility” in fighting extremism, as associations between faith and “terrorism” fuel hatred and animosity, Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa said in a Wednesday statement following the murder of three U.S. Muslims in North Carolina.

John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Wednesday he had “concerns” that President Barack Obama’s proposed authorization for the use of force against Islamic State fighters puts too many limits on military commanders.

Egypt's Court of Cassation on Wednesday overturned death sentences on 36 Islamists and supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, state news agency MENA reported.

A Belgian court on Wednesday jailed the leader of an Islamist group and several of his followers on terrorism charges for sending jihadist fighters to Syria.

Salafi figure Khaled Alam Eddin of the Nour Party criticized President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for going to the Opera with President Vladimir Putin despite the Air Defense Stadium massacre.

Security forces killed 15 suspected militants in aerial raids on North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid early Tuesday, and killed 4 more in a shelling of a vehicle in the same area, sources said.

Reponses from different political parties and groups have varied regarding the bloody violence that saw at least 19 football fans killed on Sunday.

The Building and Development Party and Al-Wasat Party have announced they will boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections and will not support any entity.

Qatar has joined the American-led coalition to fight Islamic State, yet the emirate is a haven for anti-Western groups and foreign diplomats have reported seeing cars with Islamic State logos in an affluent bay district.

The parents of a 26-year-old American who has been held hostage for more than a year by Islamic State extremists were clinging to hope Sunday that their daughter is alive, having yet to receive information confirming otherwise.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a North Sinai resident they had earlier kidnapped under the pretext that he was "cooperating with security apparatuses," security and tribal sources said.

A total of 29 have been arrested for creating an alleged terrorist cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls itself “Deterrence,” Youm7 reported Monday.

Two policemen, Abdel Hamid Ahmed and Sherif Abdel Latif, were injured by gunfire from unknown assailants in Kafr al-Sheikh on Monday. They were taken to hospital in serious condition.

A total of 29 have been arrested for creating an alleged terrorist cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls itself “Deterrence,” Youm7 reported Monday.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry handed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday a CD during the Munich Security Conference that includes seven videos on the “terrorism” faced by Egypt, as well as a PDF of Al-Azhar’s publication “The Ideological Battlefield – Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa Combats Terrorism,” Youm7 reported.

Cairo criminal court has reached a final verdict of the death penalty for three and punished a fourth defendant with ten years in jail on charges of spying for Al-Qaeda between 2008 and 2013.