The race for the Nobel peace prize, to be announced Friday, has rarely been as open or unpredictable, experts say, with the pope and Edward Snowden tipped as possible winners.

Former president Mohamed Morsi’s aides were responsible for injuring protesters in December 2012, according to new testimony by a number of army officers and security chiefs in charge of securing the Ithadeya presidential palace, when at least 10 people were killed.

Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will meet on October 20 to discuss the conflicts in Iraq and Syria where jihadist forces threaten Christians and other minorities, the Vatican said on Tuesday.

The Maspiro Youth Union is calling for a protest Thursday Oct.9 in Shubra to commemorate the third anniversary of Maspiro demonstrations and clashes that lead to the death of number of an estimated 25 Egyptians, mostly Coptic Christians.

Turkey: Jihadists waged fierce street battles Tuesday with Kurdish militia backed by US-led air strikes in a Syrian border town whose fall would mark a major victory for the Islamic State group.

Kurdish militia backed by US-led air strikes fought fierce street battles Tuesday with advancing jihadists whose three-week assault on a key Syrian border town has left hundreds reported dead.

A Franciscan priest and several Christians have been seized by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in a village in northwestern Syria, the Franciscan mission to the Holy Land said on Tuesday.

Sound bomb detonated near the Evangelical Church in Upper Egypt's Minya city late Sunday, state news agency MENA reported.

Egyptian jihadists have reportedly beheaded another three Egyptians they accused of working for Israeli intelligence, a gruesome video posted on YouTube and then removed has shown.

Egyptian security forces on Monday detained a man for flashing the four-fingered Rabaa al-Adawiya sign at the Tahrir Square as scores of people were marking the 41st anniversary of a 1973 military victory over Israel.

Small-scale protests by supporters of president Mohamed Morsi took place in Egypt on Monday, the anniversary of the 6 October war, Al-Ahram Arabic website reported.

Air strikes on three bases of the Islamic State group around their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul killed at least 25 jihadists overnight, medical sources and witnesses said on Monday.

Clashes erupted in Alexandria on Sunday between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Egypt condemned Saturday the execution of British relief worker Alan Henning by the militants of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed support for President Barack Obama’s goal of defeating ISIS but said curbing Iran’s nuclear program is also top priority during a recent interview.

Unidentified gunmen abducted Friday evening a Sufi religious leader and others South Sheikh Zuweid city in North Sinai, army source said, adding that they were kidnapped from a prayer area following Maghrib prayers.

Egypt's now-banned Muslin Brotherhood group on Saturday set up several spaces for Eid prayers outside mosques in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, despite a sustained government crackdown on the Islamist group.

Fifteen Egyptian pilgrims have died in Mecca as the annual Hajj pilgrimage begins in the holy Muslim city, according to an Egyptian health ministry official.

Egypt's army killed a field commander in Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, the country's most dangerous Islamist militant group, during clashes on Thursday in the lawless north of the Sinai Peninsula, security sources said.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb received, on Thursday, Pope Tawadros and the delegation accompanying him who arrived to congratulate him on Eid Al-Adha.

Al-Azhar University student Sarah Khaled, who was detained nine months ago for wearing a Rabaa pin, was acquitted Wednesday, according to her lawyer Negad el-Borai Thursday.