A member of Egypt's security forces was killed and another injured in a drive-by shooting in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
An Egyptian court upheld Thursday a death sentence passed on a supporter of former president Mohamed Morsi accused of throwing teenage boys from a rooftop in Alexandria, a judicial source told Ahram Online.
Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen announced on Thursday that one of its top clerics was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month in the country’s south.
Boko Haram fighters have killed more than 100 people in the north Cameroon town of Fotokol, murdering residents inside their homes and a mosque, a local civic leader said on Wednesday.
Muslim clerics widely condemned the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State, saying such a form of killing was considered despicable by Islam, no matter the context.
The Orthodox Church has now expressed its desire to keep its distance from politics during the upcoming parliamentary elections.
A police officer who shot dead a hospitalized bombing suspect linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has said that he was charged by Egypt’s president speech that followed the murder of at least 27 army officers in Sinai last Thursday.
The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt's pre-eminent Sunni Islamic institute, has strongly condemned the killing of a Jordanian pilot by the "terrorist, devilish" Islamic State (IS).
During his Tuesday meeting with ambassadors from EU member states in Cairo, Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs Hatem Seif El-Nasr urged them to "shut down channels that support the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organisation and are broadcasting through European satellites."
The trial against former president Mohamed Morsi and 10 other defendants, in which they are accused of espionage with Qatar, will hold its first session on 15 February, the Cairo Court of Appeals decided on Monday.
Egyptian troops fired warning shots over the frontier into Gaza on Tuesday after a bomb exploded on Gaza territory near an Egyptian army convoy, Egyptian security sources said, blaming Islamist group Hamas, which denied the charge.
Egyptian troops fired warning shots over the frontier into Gaza on Tuesday after a bomb exploded on Gaza territory near an Egyptian army convoy, Egyptian security sources said.
A Giza criminal court has issued a final death sentence penalty against 183 defendants in the case of killing 11 police officers during an attack on the Kerdasa, Giza police station in August 2013, following the dispersal of pro-ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi sit-ins in Cairo.
Unidentified gunmen shot at an army conscript in North Sinai's al-Arish city on Monday, causing his injury, security sources said.
Former Islamist MP Islamist Mamdouh Ismail was sentenced to life inprison in absentia Monday on charges of involvement in violent events in Roed El-Farag following the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins in 2013.
An Egyptian police officer has been detained on suspicion of killing a suspected member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in hospital, the Interior Ministry has said.
The Giza Criminal Court sentenced on Monday 66 defendants to prison over complicity in the violence which followed the deadly dispersal of two pro-Mohamed Mursi camps in August 2013.
Authorities are in the process of responding to the deadly bombings that occurred Thursday throughout North Sinai that not only resulted in heavy casualties, but also caused considerable losses to properties in the surrounding areas.
Qatar will allow the return of senior Muslim Brotherhood figures to Doha following the death of Saudi King Abdullah and the “consequent change in Qatar’s foreign policies,” according to a statement on the Brothers Without Violence Movement’s Facebook page Sunday.
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