An international coalition is pushing back Islamic State militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds but the group is threatening Libya and could seize the nation's oil wealth, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry left to Rome to participate in a U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State group (IS) conference Tuesday, after which he will head to London for the Syria Donors Conference, Youm7 reported.

Egypt is among 23 countries that met Tuesday in Rome to coordinate efforts against the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group in Syria and Iraq, and to stop its territorial advances across Libya.

An Iraqi Kurdish man has been arrested at Athens airport in possession of a passport known to have been among a haul of official documents stolen by Islamic State militants in Iraq, Greek police said Monday. The 37-year-old, who lives in Athens, was detained after flying in from the Turkish city of Istanbul on Sunday, police said in a statement.

Cairo Criminal Court will resume on Tuesday the trial of toppled President Mohamed Morsi and 10 Muslim Brotherhood members on charges of espionage and leaking documents including information on the armed forces and national security to Qatar.

A mother who took her toddler to Syria and joined the Islamic State (ISIS) group was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday after becoming the first British woman to be convicted after returning home.

Three soldiers were injured in an IED blast in west Arish, North Sinai, on Monday. The IED was planted by the perpetrators near the international road of Arish-Qantara Sharq at kilometer 17.

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.

Ten people were killed and 20 wounded, most of them civilians in Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a police station in a busy area of western Kabul, Afghan Deputy Interior Minister Ayub Salangi said in a Twitter post.

Russia's air force has carried out 468 sorties in Syria over the past week, hitting more than 1,300 "terrorist" targets, Russian news agencies quoted Russia's Defense Ministry as saying on Monday.

Bombings claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) group killed more than 50 people and wounded dozens on Sunday near a revered Shia shrine outside the Syrian capital Damascus.

Two policemen were killed and five others were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle in Rafah, North Sinai, local news reports said Sunday, quoting news sources.

Scores of people were feared killed when Boko Haram Islamists attacked a village on the outskirts of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria, the army and local residents said Sunday.

The Baltimore mosque President Obama has chosen as the first U.S.-based mosque to visit during his presidency has deep ties to extremist elements, including to the Muslim Brotherhood.

The leader of Al-Qaeda's Syrian wing tried unsuccessfully at a recent meeting to convince rival Islamist factions to merge into one unit, several insurgency sources have told Reuters.

Pope Tawadros II awarded United Arab Emirates State Minister Sultan Al Jaber the Shield of the Coptic Church Thursday in appreciation of the two Arab countries’ cooperation, Youm7 reported.

A national security policeman was shot dead Thursday by unidentified assailants in his car in Upper Egypt’s governorate of Beni Suef, reported Youm7.

Four Egyptian security personnel were killed when a roadside bomb struck their van in the restive North Sinai city of Al-Arish, a security source told Al-Ahram's Arabic site.

The head of NATO said on Thursday that the United States has requested the alliance's help in fighting ISIS in the Middle East by providing surveillance planes called the Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS).

Seven members of Hamas' military wing were killed when a tunnel collapsed this week in the Gaza Strip, the Islamist movement said on Thursday.

Army forces carrying out raids in the restive Sinai Peninsula killed a top leader of a militant group that pledged allegiance to the Islamic State on Wednesday, military sources have said.