Egyptian authorities said on Tuesday Muslim clerics would be required to read out identical pre-written weekly sermons as part of the government's campaign against extremism, drawing angry criticism from some preachers.

A series of attacks against Christians in Egypt has prompted the Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of Minya to call on police to enforce the law protecting citizens from sectarian violence.

A roadside bomb killed two Egyptian policemen on Tuesday in North Sinai, according to the interior ministry. Two other police personnel and a conscript were wounded in the bombing that hit a passing police patrol in the provincial capital of Al-Arish, the ministry added in a statement.

A local official in central Mali was killed on Monday in an attack that left his body "riddled" with bullets, security sources and an eyewitness told AFP.

Two policemen were killed and three injured in a bomb blast in Arish city, according to an Interior Ministry statement released on Monday.

In the first such visit for nearly a decade, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, offering Cairo’s help in reviving peace talks with Palestine. Mr. Shoukry’s visit is the first by a high-level Egyptian official to Israel since 2007.

Egyptian security forces foiled Sunday an attack that was set to target a security checkpoint in North Sinai's Sheikh Zuweid city, the Egyptian military said.

The chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare tells Breitbart News that America’s longtime ally Egypt is turning to Russia for military assistance because the Obama administration has “abandoned” the North African country.

A car bomb has killed 12 Libyan troops allied to General Khalifa Haftar, commander of forces with the country's eastern government, who have been fighting a campaign against Islamist militants there, a military source said.

Two Bangladeshi policeman were killed and nine other officers were wounded on Thursday in a grenade attack on a security checkpoint in a town hosting Bangladesh's biggest celebrations for the end of the Ramadan fasting month, officials said.

Two people, one of them a Christian nun, have been shot dead in the Wadi al-Natrun area, according to an Interior Ministry official.

The brother of one of the jihadists who blew themselves up in the deadly Paris attacks last November was jailed Wednesday for nine years on terror-related charges.

Egypt has reacted angrily to comments from Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan in which he slammed Egypt's "oppressive regime" for its crackdown of the Muslim Brotherhood group and harsh judicial verdicts against its members.

The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it is looking into the kidnapping in Libya of six Egyptian workers as they made their way back to Egypt.

The Islamic State group said on Wednesday that it carried out a suicide bombing that killed 16 people in a mainly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria.

Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning, strongly condemned the "despicable" terrorist attacks that struck two Saudi Arabian cities Monday.