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.

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.

Former President Mohamed Morsi’s aide for political affairs Pakinam El-Sharkawy has been investigated over charges of profiteering, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Al-Azhar University expelled 12 students on Tuesday, who are being interrogated over charges of instigating protests.

Egypt’s popular footballer Mohamed Abou-Treika filed an appeal on Tuesday against a government committee decision to freeze his assets for allegedly having Muslim Brotherhood-links.

A university professor sentenced to death along with ex-president Mohamed Morsi has dismissed Egypt’s judicial system as a tool to settle political rivalries.