The Dokki Misdemeanor Court has on Tuesday sentenced in absentia Mohamed al-Quddusi from the satellite TV channel Sharq to 10 years in prison and fined him LE500 for allegedly broadcasting false news that allegedly aimed to overthrow the regime in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood.

A Tuesday video by militant group “State of Sinai” has claimed the killing of a man by gunshot under the accusation he was an informant for the security forces.

A child was killed when a rocket hit a house in North Sinai on Tuesday, medical sources and eyewitnesses said.

Islamic State militants have seized a power plant west of the Libyan city of Sirte which supplies central and western parts of the country with electricity, the group and a military source said on Tuesday.

Egyptian security and hospital officials say two militant attacks in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula have killed one soldier and wounded four.

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb is to give the opening speech at the East and West: Dialogue between civilizations conference in Florence Monday, Youm7 reported.

A U.S. official said Wednesday that more than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed by American-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in nine months, offering a body count for a campaign that has yet to blunt their advance.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark Diocese attended on Sunday the celebration of “Brotherly Love Day” between the Orthodox and Catholic churches.

A year of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s presidency has shown “negative” progression towards an environment of democracy and human rights in a newly surfaced US State Department report.

In an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm, Abdul Salam Mantin, the Mufti of Myanmar, said Muslims in his country suffer from daily acts of violence, murder and persecution, adding that a new family planning law was recently enacted to reduce the Muslim population.

Egypt's minister for religious endowments called for the issuance of an "international law to criminalise contempt of religion" on Sunday.

A policeman was killed in a blast inside a warehouse used to manufacture explosive devices north of Cairo on Saturday, the state news agency MENA reported.

The United States and its allies carried out 22 air strikes against Islamic States militants in Syria and Iraq during a 24-hour period to Sunday, a U.S. military statement said.

Twenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital early on Sunday, a medic said.

Canadian Journalist Mohamed Fahmy defended himself Thursday at court in a closing argument, in which he denied ‘responsibility’ for invalid licenses of his former employer Al-Jazeera network, one of the charges drawn against him and his colleagues.

Local church and security leaderships in the Upper Egyptian province of Beni Suef agreed on Thursday to evict and relocate a Coptic family whose son triggered local Muslims outrage after allegedly posting anti-Islamic Facebook posts.

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II cancelled his weekly sermon at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Wednesday after it was interrupted by protesters demanding the right to divorce.

An Egyptian Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday 51 defendants to prison for periods ranging from three to 10 years, accusing them of committing violence during a constitutional referendum last year.

The United States and its allies staged 17 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in a 24-hour period in the latest daily raids on the militants, a statement from the Command Joint Task Force said on Thursday.

Former president Mohamed Morsi, and 12 other defendants, sentenced to 20 years in prison in Presidential Palace case

A security conscript was gunned down and killed while on duty near the city of al-Arish in North Sinai on Wednesday, military sources said.