Militants from the Islamic State group seized most of a vast camp for Palestinian refugees on the outskirts of Damascus from other insurgents on Wednesday in a bid to capture a major foothold close to President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power.

Religious jurisprudence textbooks for Al-Azhar students address, among other things, the issue of eating dead human beings, quoting Mansour bin Yunus al-Bahuti, a scholar of the Hanbali school of jurisprudence who died 500 years ago, as saying that eating dead Jews, Christians and non-believers is halal (permissible by Islam) if it is a necessity, but non-Muslims are not to eat dead Muslims, even out of necessity.

Three people were killed in a blast in the governorate of Sharqiya while manufacturing an explosive device inside their home, the governorate's security director said.

A policeman in the Homeland Security branch was shot dead by unknown assailants in Menoufia to the north of the Egyptian capital in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior local security official said.

Iraq’s defense minister says security forces have achieved a “magnificent victory” over the Islamic State group in Tikrit.

Prosecutor's in Upper Egypt's Beni Suef referred on Wednesday 230 Egyptians to the military prosecutor for violence-related charges

The extremist Islamic State group Tuesday executed at least 30 civilians, including two children, in a raid on a regime-held village in Syria's central province of Hama, a monitor said.

A Cairo court ordered 68 people on trial for acts of violence that occurred during the commemoration of the January 2011 uprising to pay a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds each, on Tuesday.

Six suspected militants were killed in clashes with security forces south of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, security sources said on Monday.

Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat listed Sunday leading figures in the banned Muslim Brotherhood group as “terrorists”, based on the new “terrorist entities” law.

A Islamic State-affiliated militant group has vowed to carry out more attacks in Tunisia following a deadly assault on a Tunis museum earlier this month for which it had claimed responsibility.

Egypt’s Mufti Shawqi Allam said in a statement on Monday that the duty his country performs to provide security and fight division and sectarianism is essential, not secondary or optional.

The wife and son of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed al-Beltagy have been sentenced to six months in prison and a fine of 5,000 EGP ($655) for allegedly attacking a prison guard in Tora prison.

Egyptian Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat ordered on Sunday the listing of several prominent Muslim Brotherhood leaders as "terrorists", including Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie.

Three Egyptian laborers, detained by militants in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi, have been freed by the Libyan army, the state-run MENA reported Sunday.

Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for a Saturday Cairo University explosion that injured nine persons.