The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, will visit Ethiopia on 27 September on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Cross, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday.

Lawyer Mostafa Nagy will submit a request to pardon Australian Journalist Peter Greste, who was deported to his home country in February after he was sentenced to prison in the case locally known as “Mariott Cell Case,” he told The Cairo Post Wednesday.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Israel on Wednesday for what he called its “insult” to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque in connection with Israeli actions at one of Islam’s holiest places.

A number of security personnel from the various forces, including Shi’ite militias and Kurdish Peshmerga, have joined the throngs of refugees heading towards Europe. Meanwhile, a number of former ISIS/DAASH militants are speaking out about their disillusionment with the movement.

Egyptian security forces have reportedly detained the youngest son of detained Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagi

More than 2 million Muslims on Tuesday started the first rites of the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest religious pilgrimages that draws people from different countries to the holy city of Mecca to perform a series of rituals and prayers aimed at erasing past sins.

The Egyptian military announced the killing of 10 insurgents, which it says belonged to “an extremely dangerous, armed terrorist cell” near Bahareya Oasis in the Western Desert, according to a press release on their official Facebook page.

The Egyptian army killed ten members of a “terrorist cell" in the Bahariya Oasis on Monday, a statement by the army spokesman read.

ISIS have announced that an affiliated group is responsible for the bomb which went off near a foreign ministry building in the Greater Cairo district of Agouza on Sunday.

The Salafi Call has lambasted a columnist who said people, including Muslims, acquire their faith by coincidence.

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, will visit Ethiopia on 27 September on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Cross, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday.

ISIS have announced that an affiliated group is responsible for the bomb which went off near a foreign ministry building in the Greater Cairo district of Agouza on Sunday.

House Speaker John Boehner has been trying for 20 years to get a pope to come talk to Congress. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says it’s “thrilling beyond words.”

Nine people have been arrested in Ismailia for their implication in 29 “terrorist attacks,” and guns, ammunition and explosive devices were seized in their “dens,” according to a Monday police statement.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass with tens of thousands of Cubans on Sunday in Havana's Revolution Square, the political heart of Cuba where the Communist government stages its biggest rallies.

A policeman was killed when unknown attackers shot him on a street in Arish, North Sinai, the Interior Ministry said in a statement early Sunday.

A bomb went off Sunday in Ahmed Orabi Street in the up-scale district of Mohandiseen in Giza, Youm7 reported.

Sinai-based militant group “State of Sinai” claimed Sunday, in a statement circulated on affiliated social media accounts, the killing of Brigadier General Ahmed Askar, who was shot dead in Al-Arish Saturday evening.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers are calling on Egypt to halt a project aimed at destroying the last remaining smuggling tunnels along the border.

A top-performing high school student who accuses the Education Ministry of swapping her answer sheets with that of another student is holding a press conference Thursday to discuss recent developments.

Gunmen have shot dead a police general in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in the latest attack claimed by ISIS.