A homemade bomb exploded on Thursday near the security directorate headquarters of the Gharbeya governorate, injuring two security men, state media reported.

Toppled President Mohamed Morsy did not attend his trial session, along with another 131 Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas defendants, over jailbreak charges, security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Egypt has offered to train pro-government forces battling rival armed groups in Libya, stepping up efforts to eradicate what it says is a threat to its own stability from the anarchy engulfing its neighbor.

An Egyptian national was killed in Libya's eastern city of Bengazi early Wednesday.

In the wake of delivering his speech at the UN General Assembly, the Egyptian coup leader Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi has said that the Muslim Brotherhood could join the government on condition of "rejecting violence".

An Egyptian court sentenced 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Tuesday, judicial sources said, according to Reuters.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Tuesday 63 pro-Morsi supporters to 15 years in prison for charges related to protests on the 40th anniversary of the 6 October war.

Sources said the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization has begun to intensify its efforts to prosecute officials of the Egyptian regime before international courts after recent demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to the United Nations.

Eight members of a new “terrorist cell”, allegedly in contact with the Islamic State group (IS), have been arrested by Homeland Security in the Nile Delta governorate of Sharqi, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

The Islamist Istiqlal party has been banned over its participation in the Muslim Brotherhood-led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Sources said the Muslim Brotherhood’s international organization has begun to intensify its efforts to prosecute officials of the Egyptian regime before international courts after recent demonstrations against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during his visit to the United Nations.

The Cairo Criminal Court Monday adjourned the espionage trial of former President Mohamed Morsi—who did not attend the hearing—and a number of Muslim Brotherhood codefendants, to Oct. 14 in order to “implement the demands of the defense,” Youm7 reported.

Students who want to live in Al-Azhar University's dorms this year have found something new: a black-and-white form they must sign.

A misdemeanor court has sentenced preacher Abdullah Badr, presenter of the Al-Hafez satellite channel, to two months in prison and fined him LE5,000 for insulting the judiciary.

Giza explosive experts say they defused a bomb on Monday that was planted near a police checkpoint on the 26 July corridor.

The emigration of Egypt’s Copts is neither wrong nor dangerous; emigration is a human right. Forcible migration, however, is dangerous,” Kamal Zakher, a researcher in Coptic affairs, said at a Sunday discussion on Coptic emigration.

Egyptian troops have killed over two dozen jihadist fighters during raids on militant hideouts in several provinces, Egypt's army stated.

Libyan armed militias are still holding 65 Egyptian truck drivers hostage for the fifth consecutive day in the city of Ajdabiya.

The Muslim Brotherhood said ousted president Hosni Mubarak is receiving defence and litigation rights which citizens did not receive during his “oppressive tenure”, after Mubarak’s trial was postponed.

The Students Against the Coup movement organized protests in Tahrir Square on Sunday to express its rejection of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s planned presentation at Cairo University scheduled to take place later Sunday evening.

Several top members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been asked to leave Qatar, an Egyptian leader of the group said Sunday. The apparent sudden push from Qatar comes amid longstanding pressure against the Brotherhood in the region, which began with its ouster from authority in Egypt several years ago.