“If the British government claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a terrorist organization, the crackdown on MB members in Egypt could be eased,” MB lawyer Mohamed al-Damatti told The Cairo Post Monday morning.

The Egyptian Army said 45 people, whom it described as "terrorists" were killed in the second week of March in gunfire exchange, air raids and targeting of headquarters in North Sinai.

Egyptian security officials say a garbage collector and his donkey have been killed in a bomb explosion in a Cairo district.

An Egyptian disciplinary court has ordered 41 judges into compulsory retirement for supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, judicial sources said.

A bomb injured a police officer near the court complex in Alexandria on Saturday night, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

A person was killed when a small bomb detonated at a tram station in the Matariya district of Cairo on Saturday night, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Eleven militants were killed during a military aerial raid on North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid region on Wednesday, security sources said.

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on a police station in the Libyan capital on Thursday in a statement posted on Twitter along with photographs of the scene.

A number of explosions took place in different governorates overnight and during the early hours of Thursday.

Al-Azhar Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb demanded the U.S. stop “supporting” some factions that “work against their own homelands,” according to a strongly worded statement from Al-Azhar Wednesday.

Somalia's Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab militants on Thursday attacked a fortified area in the central town of Baidoa, home to a key regional government headquarters, United Nations compound and airport, security officials said.

A military officer was killed in North Sinia's Rafah city during an attack on a security checkpoint on Wednesday, medical and security sources said.

Egypt's Interior Minister Magdi Abdel Ghaffar said confronting "terrorist groups" has shifted from being a security confrontation to an "existential war," in a Wednesday speech.

The Cairo Court of Appeals will look into an appeal to an earlier court ruling declaring the Palestinian group Hamas as a "terrorist" organisation in a session on March 28, it announced on Wednesday.

The Egyptian government has appealed against a court ruling that designated Hamas a terrorist organisation.

Small bombs hit two electricity transmission units in 10th of Ramadan city early Wednesday morning, cutting power to most of the city, Al-Ahram’s Sharqiya governorate reporter told Ahram Online. No casualties were reported in the Wednesday blast.

Police forces arrested six students loyal to deposed President Mohamed Morsi in Monufiya, north of Cairo, on Tuesday morning, an NGO reported.

Four people were killed and four were injured while at least some of them were manufacturing explosives; two inside an apartment in Qalyubia governorate in the Delta, and two others in Fayoum,Youm7 reported.

Eclipsed by newer, more bloodthirsty and media-savvy global jihadists, Somalia's Shebab militants are struggling to stay relevant.

Two blasts in North Sinai claimed the lives of three people on Tuesday, including an officer, a suicide bomber and a civilian. The latest blast left an officer dead and injured three conscripts, security sources said. The sources said the officer's body and the three conscripts have been taken to hospital.

Lebanese singer Fadl Shaker has re-appeared on the public scene about 2 years after joining hard line sheikhs and announcing his retirement.” I would like to go back to my normal life”, he said in an interview with LBC channel Saturday.