A top Islamic State figure has made an appearance in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, residents said, and a security expert identified him as "the blind judge" who ranks second in terms of religious authority within the militant group.

Hamas forces tortured and killed more than 23 Palestinians allegedly accused of collaborating with Israel during its war on Gaza strip between July and August 2013, said Amnesty international in a report issued Wednesday.

Hamas has called on Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing, labelling the demand a “political and humanitarian cause”.

A policeman was killed and another was injured on Wednesday when an explosive device went off in North Sinai's al-Arish city the Interior Ministry said.

An Egyptian court sentenced to death eight militants, including Islamist Adel Habara, charged with killing seven soldiers in an attack in the Nile Delta in early 2014, security and judicial sources said on Tuesday.

Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, although no casualties were reported as a result.

Young members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation have criticised a call for "peacefulness" from an exiled senior organisation figure online, amid Egypt's ongoing crackdown on the 87-year-old Islamist movement.

Egyptian Foreign ministry summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Cairo Tuesday to inform him that Cairo rejects a Pakistani statement over Former President Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence.

Founder of Tamarod movement Walid al-Barsh said that head of the Jamaa al-Islamiya Shura Council Ossama Hafez rejected the messages sent to the group through mediators to reconcile with the "homeland" and activate the initiative on stopping violence and excluding extremists from the group's leadership.

The Ministry of Religious Endowments held a forum for renewing religious discourse in Egypt on Monday in downtown Cairo. The forum witnessed a large turnout including Culture Minister Abdel Wahed Al-Nabawy, Sports Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz, religious scholars, and professors.

Security forces killed 12 suspected militants during raids on North Sinai's cities of al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid late Monday, reported the state news agency MENA.

Egypt only invited influential tribes to attend the Libyan Tribes Conference hosted in Cairo; no invitations were sent to militias or political parties, foreign ministry spokesperson badr abdel atty told Anadolu Turkish news agency Monday.

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 17 other leaders have challenged their designation on the Egypt's national list of terrorists, according to a judicial source.

A member of the Muslim Brotherhood died Monday in jail due to “medical malpractice,” said the group’s dissolved political arm, Freedom and Justice Party (FJP.)

A Cairo conference on renewing religious discourse will be held Monday by the Ministry of Endowment in reaction to rising sectarian disputes and radical Islamist militancy in the Middle East.

Younis Makhyoun, Chairman of the Salafi Nour Party, said police officers who tarnish the image of the Interior Ministry with their human rights violations are inadvertently encouraging the opposition to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the government.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced a Muslim Brotherhood member to death on Sunday for accusations of joining a group established in violation of the law.

Six suspected militants were killed and six were arrested during clashes with security forces in North Sinai on Sunday, military sources told Aswat Masriya.

Two Egyptian nationals have been killed in Islamists-controlled northern Libya, media outlets reported Sunday.

Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP) members and colleagues of killed activist Shaimaa Al-Sabbagh breathed in relief over the Qasr Al-Nil Misdemeanour Court’s decision to acquit them.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat has referred 61alleged “terrorists” from Damietta and Menufiya governorates to military court, charged with seeking to “create chaos in the country in an effort to overthrow the Egyptian state”.