Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said.

Gaza residents said Sunday they fear growing isolation and more hardships after an Egyptian court declared the territory's ruling Hamas a terrorist organization. Some blamed the Islamic militant Hamas while others said Egypt is being unreasonable.

Pope Francis on Sunday denounced the "intolerable brutality" being inflicted on Christians and other minorities in Iraq and Syria by Islamic State group militants.

Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Waly issued a decision Sunday to dissolve 112 more non-governmental organisations (NGOs) affiliated with the now “terrorist” Muslim Brotherhood, state media reported.

A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters’ decision Saturday designating Hamas as a “terrorist organisation” has stunned and angered Hamas officials, according to statements from various Hamas spokespersons.

The number of Christians abducted by the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria has risen to 220, as militants have rounded up more hostages from a chain of villages along a strategic river in the past three days, activists said Thursday.

Five bombs detonated in Giza early on Thursday morning, killing one and injuring at least 9 people.

Egypt's new Terrorist Entities Law has raised fears among some over its effectiveness while others believe it is necessary in the face of local and regional terrorism.

A Cairo court scheduled the verdict date for the trial of former president Mohamed Mursi and 130 others for May 16, during a session on Wednesday.

Seven suspected militants were killed and 12 more were injured in aerial raids on North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah neighbourhoods early Wednesday, a military source said.

The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) posted a Wednesday picture of its Interpol-wanted head Yusuf al-Qaradawy, based in Qatar, with radical Egyptian cleric Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud in what appears to be a hospital, signaling that Abdel Maqsoud has returned to Qatar.

The Zagazig Criminal Court referred on Tuesday Islamist jihadist Adel Habara and seven others to Egypt's Grand Mufti to consider sentencing them to death for committing violence.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi issued Tuesday a presidential decree widening the state’s power against “terrorist suspects or entities” by specifying its definition of the word “terrorist.”

A juvenile court sentenced 10 members of the Ultras White Knights group to two years prison terms on Tuesday, the head of the group's defence team said.

“The coup is fighting a war against Islam in Egypt and the region,” Islamist political organisation the Salafi Front said.

The Alexandria Court of Urgent Matters resumed its sessions Tuesday, in a lawsuit demanding the banning of the 6 April Youth Movement and listing them as a “terrorist organisation”.

The association of the Sufi Orders of Alexandria has announced that it will officially field nine of its followers, including one woman, to run for individual seats in different constituencies in March's parliamentary elections, the Ahram Arabic website has reported.

Conflicting reports circulated Monday on militants marching in the middle of Sheikh Zuweid, urging residents to take their side against security forces in written leaflets handed to residents.

The social solidarity ministry on Monday dissolved 169 non-governmental organisations controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.