The Middle East's largest ever war games are now underway and will boost military cooperation between the 20 Muslim nations taking part, host country Saudi Arabia said on Monday, as it seeks to check the growing influence of arch rival Iran.

An important Syrian government supply route to Aleppo was shut for a second day on Tuesday because of an Islamic State attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Dozens of Niqab-wearing women from the Faculty of Medicine and Qasr Al-Aini hospitals staged a protest on Sunday outside the Qasr Al-Aini conference hall against Cairo University President Gaber Nassar's decision to ban nurses and doctors from wearing the full-face veil in Qasr Al-Aini Medical School (QAMS) and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, opened a new church in the Fifth Settlement neighborhood of Cairo on Monday.

Giza security services arrested an individual for allegedly being involved with a terrorist opperation and for possessing materials used in making bombs.

Al-Azhar University’s branch in Assiut decided on Monday to dismiss a student for wrongfully stating that he had won first place in an international Quran recitation competition in Malaysia.

Former presidential candidate and Salafi leader Hazem Salah Abu Ismail and 17 other defendants will stand trial April 2 for besieging Nasr City Court in 2012, Youm7 reported.

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a worldwide ban on the death penalty, saying the commandment "You shall not kill" was just as valid for the guilty as for the innocent.

Heavy clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have left at least 14 people dead and 32 wounded, medical officials said on Saturday.

Dozens of Al-Qaeda militants took control of the southern Yemeni town of Ahwar on Saturday, residents said, consolidating the group's control over much of the region.

The Australian government warned on Sunday that terrorists may be planning attacks in and around the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.

The Islamic State militant group said it carried out two suicide bombing attacks Sunday near a Shia shrine south of Syria's capital that a monitoring group said killed 62 people.

A police officer at the civil protection department in Aswan lost part of his palm while trying to detonate an explosive device along with three other conscripts, who were also wounded, Youm7 reported Thursday.

The Islamic State militant group shot down an Iraqi military helicopter west of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least one person, officials said.

A Swedish charity accused Afghan forces Thursday of storming one of its clinics in the central province of Wardak, killing three people in what it what it said was a potential violation of international humanitarian law.

Cairo Criminal Court adjourned on Wednesday the trial of Egyptian-American Aya Hegazy, her husband Mohamed Hassanein and six others being charged with child abuse and sex trafficking to April 20 to review technical evidence.

A preaching convoy will be sent to South Sinai to deliver nightly sermons at the main mosques of the governorate to spread “moderation,” undersecretary of the Endowment Ministry Ismail al-Rawy told Youm7 Wednesday.

President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday not to let the Islamic State build a base in Libya, saying the United States would take action where there was a "clear target."

Saying Jesus would never ask them to be “hit men”, Pope Francis begged young people in Mexico’s gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to shun the lure of easy money and big cars offered by drug traffickers.

Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of 23 suspects, including 17 detainees, in a case known as the "Maspero incident" that took place in July 2013 to February 20 to hear the defense's case.

A police conscript was killed and two others were injured after an attack at their checkpoint near the Giza Security Directorate, Youm7 reported a security source Tuesday.