Egypt strongly condemned the “terrorist bomb attack” that rocked Istanbul Tuesday, calling on the international community to join hands against “terrorism,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

Security forces in Alexandria announced Tuesday the arrest of nine people over accusations of plotting to incite violence and chaos and disturbing state institutions during the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, Alexandria Security Directorate announced in a statement.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi issued a decree on Tuesday extending for three months the state of emergency in a number of troubled spots in North Sinai. The renewed state of emergency will be enforced in the cities of Arish, Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah, according to Sisi’s decree.

Egyptian member of parliament for three consecutive terms since 2005, founder and subsequent president of the Reform and Development Party, and nephew of late President Anwar Sadat, Mohamed Anwar Esmat al-Sadat affirmed that he and his family fell victim to many difficult circumstances due to their political stances, including being stripped of his membership in the 2007 People’s Assembly, only 48 hours after being elected, in a precedent never before seen in the Egyptian parliament. He also recounted seeing his brother Talaat, also an MP, jailed for one year after being convicted by a military court of contempt of the military, which he accused of complacency in protecting President Anwar Sadat when the latter was assassinated in 1981.

The head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, will make his first visit as Pope to the southern province of Luxor Monday, according to the media centre of the St. Mark Cathedral.

Egyptian police forces deployed near the border with Libya have been put on a high state of alert following airstrikes on Libyan soil by unidentified fighter jets late Sunday.

Al Qaeda has warned Saudi Arabia it will pay for the executions of dozens of its members, saying they were intended to be a new year’s gift to Riyadh’s Western allies aimed at consolidating the rule of the Saud dynasty.

The Doctors’ Syndicate sent a letter to the Prosecutor General and called on him to launch an official investigation into the killing of gynaecologist Mohamed Awad in Fayoum. Awad was killed as he was leaving his private clinic Saturday night.

Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to it.

A physician killed by police gunfire following his arrest was wanted for lobbying for protests on the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, according to security officials in Fayoum.

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 11 air strikes against Islamic State forces in Syria and 15 in Iraq on Saturday, the task force leading the operation said.

A man from the United Arab Emirates was sentenced to death in absentia on Sunday for joining Islamic State, local media reported.

The United Kingdom declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after an 18-month study ordered by British Prime Minister David Cameron — and the Obama administration slammed the document as flying in the face of the Brotherhood’s history as a “nonviolent Islamist group.”

The Czech president has claimed the migration crisis in Europe is the result of a plan by the Muslim Brotherhood to “gain control of Europe”.

Special-forces raids on an Islamic State stronghold in northern Iraq are under way before a planned offensive to retake Mosul, the largest center under the group's control, Iraq's parliamentary speaker said.

An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians flocked to churches Wednesday night to attend Masses on Christmas Eve across the predominantly Muslim country, as the government continues to battle a burgeoning Islamic insurgency.

ISIS-affiliated “Sinai Province” claimed responsibility for an attack on a hotel and a tourist bus in Giza's Haram district in a statement that was circulated on social media Friday.

At least 14 suspected militants were killed and 13 others arrested in military operations over the past two days in North Sinai, military spokesperson Mohamed Samir announced Friday.

Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Wednesday one defendant on retrial in what is referred to in the Egyptian media as the "Marriott Cell" case.

The Religious Endowments Ministry distributed a leaflet to mosques on Monday that instructs imams to prohibit participation in protests on January 25 during Friday sermons.