An official at a Suez police station was shot dead early Thursday during a chase with masked men which also left one of the assailants killed, the state agency MENA reported.

A metro driver suffered burns to his leg after assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at his cabin in a metro train Wednesday, reported Youm7.

The new statute for the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox church of Alexandria’s election, set by the Holy Synod, states the age of voters during papal elections should at least be 25 years old.

A 10-year-old girl was killed on Wednesday when an explosive device detonated outside her school in Fayoum south of Cairo, a top security official said.

Militants loyal to Islamic State killed five members of a force loyal to the government that controls Tripoli and wounded two others in the coastal city of Sirte, aTripoli-based news agency said on Wednesday, citing a military spokesman.

A former Jihadist has slammed the Islamic State’s excommunication mentality, saying that its members are “as good as donkeys” at interpretation of the Quran.

Two conscripts were killed when an improvised explosive device planted on the side of a road in North Sinai detonated on Tuesday, security sources said.

In an alleged leaked document from the Egyptian Cabinet entitled “urgent-top secret,” the government asks the minister of agriculture to hunt down “sleeper-cells” of the Muslim Brotherhood at the ministry and to train staff on security tasks “to overcome the scarcity of security elements” in different government installations.

Canada plans to expand its mission against Islamic State militants by sending fighter bombers to attack targets in Syria as well as Iraq, two well placed political sources said on Monday.

The appointment of Robert Malley as White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf Region is not considered a sufficient indicator that there will be any radical change in U.S. strategy despite the campaign launched against the U.S. by the Zionists due to its openness to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Syria and Iran.

The Muslim Brotherhood has slammed a tripartite agreement between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia regarding the latter's plan to build a mega-dam on the Nile River.

A teacher of religious education was jailed Sunday for four days pending investigations for beating a primary student and cutting a lock of her hair as punishment for not wearing hijab, Youm7 reported.

Egypt's top prosecutor received on Monday a request to reopen investigation into the death of political activist Mohamed el-Gendy who went missing on the second anniversary of the January 2011 uprising.

The Tanta Criminal Court sentenced Sunday 23 alleged members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to life imprisonment on charges of violence and the murder of four civilians, according to the prosecution.

An estimated 49 persons were arrested Sunday while attempting to illeally cross into Libya through the desert routes near the borders in Sallum with Egypt, reported Youm7.

Armed men attacked a security patrol in the Suez governorate Monday morning, injuring a soldier, reported Youm

A criminal court in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta convicted 23 Muslim Brotherhood members for acts of violence that broke out in 2013 and sentenced them to life in prison on Sunday.

Military operations carried out by Egypt's armed forces in North Sinai over the past week have left 43 suspected militants dead, the army said in a statement on Sunday.

Two people were killed while attempting to plant an improvised explosive device near the local council of Sharqiya's city of Ibrahimiya on Saturday night, reported the state news agency MENA.

Salafi Nour Party head Younes Makhion told Youm7 Sunday he has been threatened more than once and that his name is at the top of a hit list for “terrorists.”

According to a security source, an extensive crackdown in southern Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah resulted in the death of seven suspected extremists, the arrest of eight others and the demolition of a number of terrorist hotbeds.