A commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group was killed by an Iraqi woman after he forced her to become a sex slave for his fighters.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND has collected evidence ISIS jihadists used mustard gas in an attack in Iraq, a German newspaper reported Monday.

France warned on Tuesday that it would be a mistake for Europe to take in all refugees persecuted by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, and called for a plan of action to ensure the Middle East's diversity remained despite the mounting crisis.

Egyptian secularists are pushing for the country’s Islamist parties to be declared illegal amid an ongoing security clampdown on Islamists.

The armed forces killed 29 terrorist suspects in North Sinai in operation “Retribution for the martyr” launched on Monday night. According to a military statement, security raids cover Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid and Al-Arish.

An Egyptian court released a detailed ruling Sunday on why it sentenced Canadian Mohammed Fahmy and two other Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison for airing what it described as “false news” and biased coverage, a case long criticized by press freedom advocates and others.

Death sentences handed to nine people charged with belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood were approved Monday by the Mansoura Criminal Court.

His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom issued the following statement on Friday:

A Kuwaiti media worker made contact with Muslim Brotherhood members to give them TV coverage, the Federal Supreme Court heard.

Egypt's Social Solidarity Ministry ordered on Monday the dissolution of 57 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for "ties with the Muslim Brotherhood."

Egypt's prosecution referred at least 38 alleged Islamists, including an influential exiled cleric, to military trial Saturday, accusing them of setting up militant cells that killed a police officer.

Al Shabaab took control of a populous town in central Somalia on Sunday after African Union forces left the area – the third town the Islamist insurgents have seized since Friday, militants and local officials said.

Egypt’s acting prosecutor general ordered on Saturday the referral of 35 defendants accused of killing a high-ranking police officer in April to the military judiciary, the prosecution said.

Five alleged Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested for purportedly being involved in a deadly attack on a bus in Beheira, the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday.

A high-flying student in Egypt was shocked to discover that she had spectacularly failed all seven of her exams without even scoring a single mark.

Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi told EU diplomats in 2012 that protests at the American embassy in Cairo in September of that year were orchestrated by Salafists who did not approve of his policies and wanted to destabilise his government, Hillary Clinton's emails revealed.

A Christian high school student who challenged the Education Ministry's exam protocol resulting in a public outcry, has declined to meet with Pope Tawadros II, the church said Wednesday.

The Sohag Criminal Court ruled Thursday to sentence 119 Muslim Brotherhood defendants accused of torching a church in Upper Egypt in 2013 to sentences ranging from 10 years and life in prison, Youm7 reported.

A criminal court issued prison verdicts against 119 defendants on charges of the arson of St Mary’s Church in Sohag governorate, state media reported.

Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker Mohammad al-Falahgi was arrested on terror charges in 2013 and held in prison, but never convicted. Earlier this year, after pleading for medical help, he died “handcuffed to the hospital bed,” according to his son Osama.

Egypt's prime minister Ibrahim Mahlab has asked justice minister Ahmed El-Zend to form an independent committee to investigate the case of a Thanaweya Amma (High School) student who got zero marks in all her summer exams, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Tuesday.