The Egyptian Administrative Court annulled on Tuesday a former media gag order imposed on a case referred to in the Egyptian media as the “the 2012 presidential elections fraud case.”

MP Mohamed Abu Hamed requested that religious lessons be banned in private homes and villas during the parliament's Tuesday session.

The United States and it allies staged two dozen strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.

A police officer, two conscripts and two civilians were injured Tuesday as a bomb went off in North Sinai's capital city Arish, the interior ministry said.

Two Egyptian courts acquitted Tuesday 29 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters charged with inciting violence.

Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high enough standard could face deportation from Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday.

The United States and its allies conducted a total of 35 air strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement early on Monday.

As the fifth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution approaches, the Ministry of Interior is extending its security measures throughout country, planning for “Police Day celebrations”, while the Muslim Brotherhood and affiliated entities are mobilising their supporters to protest.

Egyptian security forces announced over the weekend that they were continuing to investigate the shooting incident last Thursday in Cairo, in which gunmen opened fire on Israeli tourists as they boarded a bus in Cairo. There were no casualties in the shooting, which took place at the Three Pyramids Hotel, on a road leading to the Giza pyramids southwest of the capital. The tourists boarding the bus were Israeli Arabs.

Muslim organisations have called for David Cameron to make public a wide-ranging government report into the actions of the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK, which accused a number of high profile British charities and think-tanks of having links to the movement.

A total of 21 Egyptian nationals, who had been abducted by an armed group in Libya, were released Saturday evening, their relatives told Youm7.

Egypt’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Saturday Burkina Faso hotel attack that killed at least 23 people.

Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.

Bishoy Kamel was supposed to walk free from his military service in February. Instead, his family collected his body three months earlier. The corpse bore “signs of torture”, the family said.

A debate that's been raging in churches for centuries could finally be resolved.

A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam's teachings, according to a new poll.

The government is seeking to strengthen security measures in tourist resorts located in Sharm El-Shiekh and Hurghada with an allocation of $32m (EGP 250m), Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou announced Thursday.

Islamic State (ISIS) carried out the attacks in Jakarta earlier on Thursday, a news agency allied to the group reported.

On 12-13 January, the UK and Egypt held the 10th round of regular military-to-military staff talks in Cairo.

The Egyptian police on Wednesday arrested two Muslim Brotherhood members for managing 47 Facebook pages that call for protests on January 25.

The Cabinet approved the draft of a presidential decree imposing jail, a LE10,000-LE30,000 fine, or both penalties to people possessing or trading items that promote groups considered by authorities to be terrorist organizations on Wednesday.