Four security personnel were killed in an explosion near Rafah city in North Sinai on Wednesday, Egypt's armed forces spokesman said.

Sixteen students at an industrial high school in Egypt's Nile Delta Beheira governorate were injured in a birdshot-drive-by shooting by unknown assailants, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

The Vatican has officially recognized the state of Palestine in a new treaty. The treaty, which was finalized Wednesday but still has to be signed, makes clear that the Holy See has switched its diplomatic relations from the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the state of Palestine.

A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen shot and killed two paramilitary troops and two workers for an army-owned company at a canal construction site in the country’s southwest.

Eight Morsi supporters were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia Tuesday over charges of illegal protesting and for acts of violence in the eastern Al-Marg district of Cairo.

12 students were injured in the Delta governorate of Beheira following a seemingly random shooting, Youm 7 reported Tuesday.

Lawyer Samri Sabry filed a complaint against 15 Egyptian footballers accusing them of affiliation with the Muslim Brotherhood, and demanding an investigation of their assets Tuesday.

Egyptian Prime Minster Ibrahim Mahlab requested the French Audiovisual Council to halt the broadcasts of pro-Muslim Brotherhood private TV Al Sharq in an official visit to Paris, Youm 7 reported Tuesday.

With the aim of countering radical ideologies, "terrorism" and “Islamic State” (IS) propaganda, Egypt's Islamic scholars have set out on several tours around Europe to "modify the image of Islam".

Thirty Egyptian tribes based in Sinai said on Sunday they would confront militant groups including an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police, in a boost to Egypt’s efforts to improve security.

Two years after their meeting in Rome, Pope Francis has sent a message to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The Egyptian authorities have seized assets of former national football star Mohamed Aboutrika, amid allegations that he helped fund banned Islamist movement the Muslim Brotherhood.

Teenagers poke fun at just about everything, but in Egypt a joke has the potential of ruining lives. Arrested last month were four teenagers and their teacher who were caught on tape making fun of ISIS, but was construed as an insult to Islam.

Two Muslim Brotherhood members were killed in the explosion of two IEDs on Sunday, as they were carring the devices on a motorcycle, in order to plant them near a police checkpoint on Fayoum-al-Azab road, according to investigations.

Judge Moataz Khafagy, currently presidig over a major trial involving top Muslim Brotherhood leaders, has survived a bomb attack outside of his residence in Helwan, south Cairo.

The state-run committee, tasked with appraising and freezing the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), has seized the Egyptian footballer Mohamed Abu Treika’s share in a company over affiliation with the MB organization, judicial source told Youm7 Friday.

Thirty Egyptian tribes based in Sinai said on Sunday they would confront militant groups including an Islamic State affiliate that has killed hundreds of soldiers and police, in a possible boost to Egypt's efforts to improve security.

A woman was injured when unidentified assailants fired at her in central Sinai, while three suspected militants were killed in a security campaign in the north of Sinai, on Sunday.

The trial of former president Mohamed Morsi over charges of spying for Qatar was postponed in a Thursday hearing to May 13, where the case’s exhibits will be unsealed.

Dentistry student Asmaa Hamdy’s appeal to halt a five-year prison sentence against her was rejected on Wednesday, said ‘Freedom for the Brave’, which is an initiative that provides support for detainees.

Egypt's border security forces chased and killed early Thursday three suspected militants in a crossfire in North Sinai's Rafah, the armed forces spokesman said.