Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.

Tanta University’s challenge against the ruling allowing female students to take exams with their niqab, an Islamic face veil, was rejected by the Administrative Court Monday, Youm7 reported.

WASHINGTON: he United States and its allies conducted 23 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Monday.

Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Islamic State militants in central Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the group claimed it brought down, security sources said on Monday.

Nour Party member and a candidate in the current parliamentary elections, Emad El-Mahdy, was stabbed infront of his campaign headquarters in Egypt's Sharqiya governorate, the Facebook page of the candidate said.

An Egyptian criminal court sentenced militant Adel Habara to death on Saturday, alongside six others in a retrial for the killing of 25 soldiers in Rafah in North Sinai in August 2013.

The Port Said Criminal Court postponed Sunday the trial of 51 defendants in the case known as the “Port Said prison clashes” to Monday, to continue hearing defence witnesses.

The Muslim organization said it "categorically condemns the multiple terrorist attacks and mourns the loss of and expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims". I wonder if they have developed a few cynicism about all the claims made about who and what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects. Iranian officials were quick to criticize the Islamic State group, which took credit for the attacks, urging for the global community to stand together against the extremist group. Many have also objected to the term "Muslim terrorists", although others argue that it's appropriate. A few enterprising Twitter users even posted an excerpt from the Quran, which proves that Muslims are not terrorists by condemning violence.

ISIS claims of responsibility for Friday’s Paris massacre are being reviewed by US intelligence analysts Sunday morning, with a focus on the English-language version, which is delivered in American-accented English, Fox News has been told. It is now clear the plot included a rollout of ISIS propaganda, which was prepared in advance, including threats directed toward the Russian people, Rome, London and Washington DC.

Egypt will light up the Great Pyramids of Giza with the colours of the French and Russian flags on Sunday night at 9:30 pm local time, as decided by the Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities, state-run media MENA reported Saturday.

Nine civilians, including a child, were killed in an early morning shooting in Arish Thursday by North Sinai militants, North Sinai Governor Abdel Fattah Harhour told Egyptian state television.

Egypt’s Social Solidarity Ministry dissolved Thursday 12 non-governmental organizations, claiming they have ties with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

The suspected bombing of a Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai Peninsula has sparked concerns about Egypt’s security situation, but IOCs are showing little desire to pull out – despite warnings that the threat from insurgents could worsen.

In a stressful city like Cairo, people tend to search for a calm place in which they can catch their breath from the fast rhythm of life and there is nothing more calming than Al-Azhar Mosque. While there are thousands of other mosques in Cairo, none of them can compete with Al-Azhar, with its importance in Egypt’s history.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II on Monday at the papal residence at the Cathedral of Saint Mark in Cairo’s Abbassiya district.

Imagine the existence of a group involved in covertly formulating a plan on how to subvert the U.S. Constitution, distributing that plan among its leadership and agents within the U.S., quietly supporting terrorism to further this agenda, declaring war against America, and brazenly recognizing U.S. indifference by boasting about its terrorist activities.

Pope Francis called on the Catholic church on Tuesday to stop clinging to conservatism and fundamentalism as a defensive response to the problems it is facing, and said the church ought to be “bruised, hurting and dirty” instead of obsessed with money and power.

During his papal visit to Florence, Pope Francis addressed issues of poverty, exploitation and the image of the Church. He says it has to get ‘bruised, hurting and dirty’ while reaching out to the poor, and less centered around power and money.

Al-Nour Party’s assistant head of legal affairs, Talaat Marzouk, said he will appeal against the Supreme Electoral Commission’s (SEC) decision announcing the “For the love of Egypt” list as the winner of parliamentary elections in West Delta at the court of cassation.

The Religious Endowments Ministry is interrogating one of its imams in Monufiya who had claimed sainthood and printed books promoting the idea.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a police vehicle and were freed a suspect accused of drug trafficking in Egypt’s Delta governorate of Sharqia, Youm7 reported Tuesday.