The Ministry of Religious Endowments held a forum for renewing religious discourse in Egypt on Monday in downtown Cairo. The forum witnessed a large turnout including Culture Minister Abdel Wahed Al-Nabawy, Sports Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz, religious scholars, and professors.

Security forces killed 12 suspected militants during raids on North Sinai's cities of al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid late Monday, reported the state news agency MENA.

Egypt only invited influential tribes to attend the Libyan Tribes Conference hosted in Cairo; no invitations were sent to militias or political parties, foreign ministry spokesperson badr abdel atty told Anadolu Turkish news agency Monday.

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 17 other leaders have challenged their designation on the Egypt's national list of terrorists, according to a judicial source.

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood died Monday in jail due to “medical malpractice,” said the group’s dissolved political arm, Freedom and Justice Party (FJP.)

A Cairo conference on renewing religious discourse will be held Monday by the Ministry of Endowment in reaction to rising sectarian disputes and radical Islamist militancy in the Middle East.

Younis Makhyoun, Chairman of the Salafi Nour Party, said police officers who tarnish the image of the Interior Ministry with their human rights violations are inadvertently encouraging the opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the government.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a Muslim Brotherhood member to death on Sunday for accusations of joining a group established in violation of the law.

Six suspected militants were killed and six were arrested during clashes with security forces in North Sinai on Sunday, military sources told Aswat Masriya.

Two Egyptian nationals have been killed in Islamists-controlled northern Libya, media outlets reported Sunday.

Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) members and colleagues of killed activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh breathed in relief over the Qasr Al-Nil Misdemeanour Court’s decision to acquit them.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat has referred 61alleged “terrorists” from Damietta and Menufiya governorates to military court, charged with seeking to “create chaos in the country in an effort to overthrow the Egyptian state”.

Commenting on Norway’s objection to the deposed President Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence, Ahmed Ezz al-Arab, deputy chairman of the Wafd Party, said Norway executed Quisling who helped Hitler occupy Norway.

Iraqi forces said they thwarted a third attempt by Islamic State militants to break through their defensive lines east of the city of Ramadi overnight on Thursday.

The calls for murdering judges that have emerged “on the lips of some members of terrorist organizations are associated with the ideology of these organizations, and are not related the science of fatwa and its conditions and objectives,” Dar al-Iftaa said in a Thursday statement.

Clashes broke out between suspected militants and security forces in North Sinai's al-Arish City late Wednesday, leaving eight suspected militants killed and three more injured, a military source said.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met Thursday afternoon with Austrian foreign minister Sebastian Kurz, who is currently on a multiple-day visit to the Egyptian capital to boost mutual ties, Egypt's presidency said.

The U.S.-led coalition staged 25 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq since early on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operation said on Wednesday.

Security forces killed on Wednesday one of two suspects in a shooting incident which left two policemen killed last month, reported the state news agency MENA.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed Wednesday the trial session against former president Mohamed Morsi and 10 other defendants, accused of espionage with Qatar, to 24 May.

The latest death sentences against Hamas members show that Egypt is not ready to restore ties with Hamas or the Palestinian people, senior member of Hamas Mushir al-Masri told Arab 48 website Tuesday.