A few hours separate Al-Jazeera journalists from hearing their final verdict after more than a year and a half of legal struggle; half of which were spent in prison over terror charges; widely denounced by international media bodies.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested six suspected militants, including the chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ul Mujahideen group, as authorities stiffen a crackdown on hardline Islamists.

Egyptian police have killed two men suspected of involvement in violence against the state, state news agency MENA reported late Monday.

A bomb explosion took place on Tuesday morning in the North Sinai town of Al-Arish with no casualties reported, a North Sinai resident told Daily News Egypt.

The Cairo Criminal Court on Monday postponed to the first of October the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and 24 others over charges of insulting the judiciary.

The Egyptian Court of Administrative Judiciary has rejected Monday a challenge that demands nullify death sentences, which have been already carried against six people by a military court in May, Youm7 reported.

Ankara is concerned that the success in northern Syria of the Kurdish YPG militia, which has pushed back Islamic State with the help of US-led air strikes, will stoke separatist sentiment among its own Kurds and embolden the PKK.

Somalia's Shebab insurgents killed at least 13 people Sunday in a suicide bomb attack on a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, a security official said Monday, updating an earlier death toll. "The devastation was huge, and so far 13 people, all of them innocent civilians, have been confirmed dead," government security officer Ahmed Ali said. "Some of the wounded died last night, while other bodies were recovered under the wreckage of nearby buildings."

Three villagers were beheaded during a weekend raid in Cameroon by Boko Haram jihadist fighters from neighbouring Nigeria, security forces said Monday.

The Sinai Province, a jihadist group in North Sinai, has claimed responsibility for the bombing of a bus full of soldiers in Arish Sunday morning.

Somali Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, saying it was responding to assaults on the group by an African Union force and the Somali government.

A woman was killed and two children were injured when their house in North Sinai was hit by a shell from an unknown source on Sunday, medical sources said.

The Cairo Criminal Court adjourned the retrial of eight defendants in the case publicly known as the Suez Terrorist Cell trial to 29 August, to bring the defendants to court.

Pope Francis on Sunday became the first person registered for next year's World Youth Day festivities, using an iPad to sign up while addressing thousands of pilgrims and tourists in Saint Peter's Square.

The death toll from multiple bomb blasts at two bus stations in the northern Nigerian city of Gombe on Wednesday has risen to 37, with 105 others injured, a Red Cross official said on Thursday.

An explosive device planted in a military vehicle in North Sinai's Rafah went off on Thursday, killing a military officer and three soldiers, the armed forces spokesman announced.

The Cairo Criminal Court postponed Wednesday the ongoing trial against former president Mohamed Morsi and 10 other defendants to 2 August, as Morsi was unable to attend the session.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday played down the significance of a visit by Hamas leaders, saying it was only a religious pilgrimage and Riyadh's position on the Palestinian Islamist movement was unchanged.

Hisham Ali Ashmawi condemned and called for a holy war against the government of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, according to Reuters, who cited the SITE intelligence group.

Minor bombs hit the homes of two policemen in North Sinai on Wednesday morning, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

An Egyptian militant urged Muslims to launch jihad against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's "new pharaoh", in celebration of the Islamic Eid al-Fitr holiday.