Three people were killed in a blast in the governorate of Sharqiya while manufacturing an explosive device inside their home, the governorate's security director said.

A policeman in the Homeland Security branch was shot dead by unknown assailants in Menoufia to the north of the Egyptian capital in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior local security official said.

Iraq’s defense minister says security forces have achieved a “magnificent victory” over the Islamic State group in Tikrit.

Prosecutor's in Upper Egypt's Beni Suef referred on Wednesday 230 Egyptians to the military prosecutor for violence-related charges

The extremist Islamic State group Tuesday executed at least 30 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a regime-held village in Syria's central province of Hama, a monitor said.

A Cairo court ordered 68 people on trial for acts of violence that occurred during the commemoration of the January 2011 uprising to pay a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds each, on Tuesday.

Six suspected militants were killed in clashes with security forces south of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, security sources said on Monday.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat listed Sunday leading figures in the banned Muslim Brotherhood group as “terrorists”, based on the new “terrorist entities” law.

A Islamic State-affiliated militant group has vowed to carry out more attacks in Tunisia following a deadly assault on a Tunis museum earlier this month for which it had claimed responsibility.

Egypt’s Mufti Shawqi Allam said in a statement on Monday that the duty his country performs to provide security and fight division and sectarianism is essential, not secondary or optional.

The wife and son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy have been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 5,000 EGP ($655) for allegedly attacking a prison guard in Tora prison.

Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Sunday the listing of several prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders as "terrorists", including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie.

Three Egyptian laborers, detained by militants in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, have been freed by the Libyan army, the state-run MENA reported Sunday.

Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for a Saturday Cairo University explosion that injured nine persons.

Attorney General Hisham Barakat ordered Sunday to list former Muslim Brotherhood group’s Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and a number of the banned-group’s leaders as terrorist per a February anti-terrorism decree Youm7 reported.

More than 70 German women have made their way to ISIS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz - BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

“Look at me, stand up straight, this is going on Facebook'; an unseen police personnel says while recording a group of men and women standing facing a cement wall and raising their hands in what appears to be a warehouse; sawdust is littered on the floor.

Egypt participated with naval and air forces in the Saudi military operation on the Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen Thursday, a source told Reuters.