The hardline Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria, the first time it has decapitated female civilians, the founder of a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday.

A suspect belonging to Giza Popular Resistance, a little-known group which had claimed responsibility for the assassination of Prosecutor General Hesham Barakat on Monday was arrested on Tuesday, Egypt’s state-run agency MENA reported, quoting sources from the Giza Security Directorate.

Iraqi officials say a series of attacks in Baghdad and in two towns near the capital has killed at least eight people.

The banned Muslim Brotherhood said on Monday it rejected killing, adding that justice must ensue for violence to end, hours after Egypt's top prosecutor was assassinated on his way to work in Cairo.

Islamic State-affiliated jihadists Sinai Province, previously known as Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, have released a video showing their attack on a microbus in North Sinai's Al-Arish, which killed three judges and the driver on 16 May.

Islamic State affiliates in North Sinai, known as “State of Sinai”, posted a new video Sunday evening of the assassination of three judges in May. The new video went viral through social media networks under the name of “extermination of Judges”.

A TV presenter affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood will go on trial before a Giza court on 8 July, for allegedly attempting to topple a regime amongst other charges.

Cairo Criminal Court resumes on Monday the trial of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and ten others in the Qatar espionage case.

A bomb exploded on Sunday outside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Cairo's Garden City district, but did not cause any casualties, reported MENA state agency.

The Islamic State group has executed more than 3,000 people in Syria, including hundreds of civilians, in the year since it declared its self-described "caliphate," a monitor said on Sunday.

A suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shi'ite mosque in Kuwait was a Saudi national, the interior ministry said Sunday.

Canberra was Sunday attempting to verify whether an Australian Islamic State group fighter, notorious for being photographed with severed heads, had survived a drone attack after a report said he was still alive.

The Zagazig Criminal Court in Sharqiya has sentenced 47 members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood to periods ranging between three and 15 years in prison on charges of violence in seven different cases.

The suspected Islamist militant held over an attack against a French chemical plant has admitted to killing his boss, a source close to the investigation said on Sunday.

Lawyer Wafa’ey al-Desouky filed challenge on Thursday to State Council’s Supreme Administrative Court demanding suspension of death and life sentences given to former President Mohamed Morsi in criminal cases until his challenge is mulled.

The Holy Complex of the Coptic Orthodox Church will not this year hold “an iftar for national unity;" a charity iftar for fasting Muslims, in order to make donations to a national fund, a spokesman for the Church told Ahram Online

A misdemeanour court acquitted on Wednesday Islamic show host Islam al-Beheiry of the charge of being in contempt of religion.

A proposal by the 2012 presidential candidate and dissident Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Moneim Abouel Fotouh to run early presidential elections has backfired with pro-government analysts and politicians deeming it unacceptable.

The “Islamic State” in Iraq (IS) published a new video on Tuesday showing the graphic killing of 16 people in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.

Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents said on Wednesday its members were behind a car bomb explosion in the Somali capital targeting government officials from the United Arab Emirates that killed three people.

About 40 people have been killed by suspected Boko Haram militants who torched houses and shot people as they fled in two villages in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, witnesses told Reuters on Wednesday.