Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has called for higher vigilance and better preparedness in the kingdom after a suicide attack claimed by Islamic State on a security forces mosque killed 15 people, state news agency SPA reported late on Saturday.

A suicide bomb attack on in a mosque in Abha city in south west Saudi Arabia killed 17 people on Thursday, Saudi state television channel al-Ekhbariya reported.

A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine on Thursday, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.

First a suicide bomber kills three Libyan soldiers at a checkpoint in the eastern city of Benghazi. When the army sends in reinforcements, Islamist fighters holed up in nearby buildings open fire, killing six more.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack Thursday on a mosque inside a Saudi special forces headquarters that killed 15 people.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 25 Muslim Brotherhood members to three years in prison for inciting violence and participating in anti-regime protests in the Upper Egyptian city of Sohag.

Divorced people who have remarried "are still part of the Church" and should not be treated as if they have been excommunicated or cast out, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed at least six people and kidnapped more than 50 in a raid on a village in northern Cameroon, according to a soldier sent to the scene.

Syria supports any efforts to combat Islamic State if they are coordinated with Damascus but anything else would "be a breach of Syrian sovereignty", state television quoted the country's foreign minister as saying on Wednesday,

A Croatian citizen kidnapped by Egyptian militants appeared in a video released on Wednesday, saying that he will be killed in 48 hours if Muslim women "arrested in Egyptian prisons" are not released.

The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Monday a defendant accused of the premeditated murder of a Muslim Brotherhood member, state media reported.

The dimly-lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and kings; imperialists and socialists; occupation and liberation; war and peace.

Three unknown gunmen wounded two members of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party in Giza early Tuesday. The pair was leaving a mosque in the Kerdasa suburb before they were shot by the attackers, sustaining injuries in the stomach and chest. Both were taken to hospital.

Egyptians security officials say militants in northern Sinai have shelled a house near a security checkpoint, killing an entire family of five members inside it and wounding nine of their neighbors.

Germany has said that the Muslim Brotherhood has become in a state of "obscurity" since the assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor late June.

Five civilians from one family were killed on Tuesday when their house in North Sinai was shelled, in tandem with intense clashes between security forces and militants, sources said.

A total of 27 defendants, allegedly belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, were acquitted of attempting to raid a police station south of Giza in 2013, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Cairo Administrative Court on Monday approved a request by Zamalek football club chairman Mortada Mansour to withdraw a lawsuit he had filled calling for Ultras football fan groups to be listed as terrorist organisations.

Tarek al-Zomor, the fugitive president of the Construction and Development Party, which is the political arm of the Gamaa Islamiya group, said that in addition to the party, other Islamists are also considering the possibility of refraining from occupying more than 40 percent of the seats in government over the next 10 years.

Russian security forces have killed six Islamist militants with suspected ties to foreign terrorists in the country's volatile North Caucasus, the anti-terror committee said on Monday.