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.

A total of 30 people were ordered jailed for four days Tuesday pending investigations over illegal protesting in Matariya, northern Cairo, Youm7 reported.

A new video released Monday by the “Islamic State”-affiliated militant group “Sinai Province”, showing a militant advising other Islamist entities in Egypt, namely the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafi movement, to abandon “peaceful means” of applying of Islamic Sharia and to take up arms.

Animprovised explosive device (IED) detonated occurred near a court on the outskirts of Menufiya on Tuesday, with no causalities reported.

Russia's federal tourism agency on Wednesday issued a warning that Islamic State jihadists were planning to abduct Russian citizens in Turkey.

Writer and former parliamentary candidate Fatima Naoot was sentenced to three years in prison and an EGP 20,000 fine over charges of contempt of the Islamic religion. The verdict was issued Tuesday by a misdemeanour court in Cairo.

Three alleged Muslim Brotherhood members were reportedly killed in Upper Egypt's governorate of Beni Suef after exchanging fire with security personnel, Egypt's ministry of interior said in a statement on Monday.

Security forces detonated two bombs planted near a main road west of Arish, North Sinai on Tuesday. Sources and eyewitnesses said the forces shot at the IEDs from a distance. The operation left no casualties, they said.

Egyptian Islamist preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi called Tuesday on the banned Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt to carry out comprehensive elections as fast as possible among the group members for the MB Shura Council and Guidance Bureau.

Thirty-seven suspects were arrested during a security raid in Arish, North Sinai, on Tuesday, security sources have said.

Security forces in 6 October City dispersed a march led by Muslim Brotherhood supporters on Monday afternoon, the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, and arrested four protesters.

Security forces dispersed a protest and a human chain in Abu Homs and Kafr al-Dawwar, Beheira, staged by Muslim Brotherhood supporters on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the January 25 revolution.

Egyptian Columnist Fatma Naoot will receive a sentence Tuesday over accusations of “insulting religion,” after she criticized Islamic slaughtering of animals in Eid al-Adha.

Egyptian police said on Monday that explosives found during a Sunday raid on an apartment in Giza's Kerdasa were the same type used in a bomb that killed eight policemen and three civilians during another raid in Haram on Thursday.

A 24-year-old was killed in Beni Suef in a gun battle with the police Monday as they attempted to raid his home, Youm7 reported.