A Nile Delta prosecutor says he has charged 40 people with belonging to the Islamic State militant group and planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Egypt.

In an exclusive extended interview with Spanish daily El-Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno published on Wedne, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has said former rulers and now-outlawed Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood have the right to defend their ideas, but are not allowed to impose them on Egyptians.

Some 73 tribes are uniting to assist the military and police in Sinai to fight “terrorist” groups located in Sinai, a leader within the Bedouin Tarabin tribe said Wednesday.

Photojournalist Ahmed Gamal Ziada, along with twelve other defendants, was acquitted of all charges Wednesday in the Al-Azhar University clashes case.

A five-year old child was killed on Thursday when an explosion occurred outside his home in a city in Sharqiya, north of Cairo, the governorate's security director said.

Dr. Andrea Zaki, head of the Evangelical Church in Egypt, said the Synod of the Nile which includes the General Congregation Council for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and representatives of the congregation will resolve the issue of ordaining women as priests, in its annual meeting next Sunday the 2nd of May.

The Nasr City Misdemeanour Court rejected Tuesday the appeal of former Sharqeya governor Hassan El-Naggar against a four-year prison sentence, but reduced the original sentence to two years in prison.

The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted on Wednesday 13 defendants of the charge of rioting in al-Azhar University in December 2013, sentencing 63 others to prison in the same case.

The Giza Criminal Court sentenced on Wednesday 71 defendants to life in prison for breaking into a church in Kerdasa and torching it in August 2013, reported the state agency MENA.

The case of a 15-year-old Muslim girl who was banned from class twice for wearing a long black skirt seen as too openly religious for secular France has sparked an outcry.

Ten female students charged in 2013 riots at Al-Azhar University will be released after serving a period exceeding the terms they received Wednesday; they have been fined 216,000 EGP each ($28,300) in compensation for major damage to the facility, Youm7 reported.

A picture of a bruised face with a black posted on Facebook Monday conveyed Nehal Kamal’s message regarding her decision to take off her traditional headscarf, arguing that Egyptian women are not really free to take off their hijab.

Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Sunni Muslim militant group Islamic State, including at least 65 Saudi nationals, the interior ministry said in a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency on Tuesday.

Leila Attia Isaac, a Coptic Church lawyer, filed an appeal on Tuesday to the Supreme Administrative Court to challenge the verdict obliging the Church to allow the remarriage of Hani Wasfi Demian, a Coptic Christian.

The Cairo Criminal Court decided on Tuesday to postpone the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and 10 other leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood accused of leaking to Qatar documents issued by sovereign state institutions and by the presidency.

A military aircraft crashed in the Mazar area in west Arish Tuesday, in a deserted area, eye witnesses told Youm7.

The Bedouin Tarabin tribe, one of the biggest extended tribes in Egypt, has attacked suspected hotbeds Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in southern Rafah of North Sinai, Youm7 reported Monday.

Boko Haram gunmen massacred residents who tried to jump into Lake Chad seeking safety and burnt others alive after overpowering soldiers in a weekend attack in the restive region, a witness said Monday.

A military court in the seaport city of Suez sentenced four people affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison in absentia on Monday.

Security sources in North Sinai announced on Monday that nine militants allegedly belonging to Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a terrorist group active in North Sinai, were killed during a crackdown by the armed forces and police in south Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah.

A military court in Suez on Monday sentenced eight Brotherhood members in absentia to 15 years in prison as well as life imprisonment for inciting riots and violence.