Egypt expresses its solidarity with the Iraqi government and people in light of the launch of coordinated military operations to retake Mosul from the Islamic State militant group on Monday, foreign ministry spokesperson Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Monday.

An Egyptian delegation is set to participate in the 3rd United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, more commonly known as Habitat III, scheduled to kick off in Quito, Ecuador, 17-20 Oct. 2016, Youm7 reported.

Egypt and Russia commenced the “Guardians of Friendship 2016″ joint military exercise on Sunday, which involves airborne forces from both countries, Egyptian military spokesman Mohamed Samir announced in a statement.

Eight new Rafale fighter jets are joining the Egyptian Air Force next year, the Egyptian state-owned newspaper al-Akhbar reported on Friday.

Egyptian media is reporting that a high-level Syrian delegation has arrived in Cairo for talks with unnamed senior officials.

Egypt's army said three of its personnel were killed and two wounded during air and ground operations against militants in the restive North Sinai region on Sunday.

Egypt's army has launched a major campaign to target “terrorist elements” in several areas in North and Central Sinai, the army's spokesman announced on Sunday.

A record 64 MPs have decided to ‎join the Egyptian parliament's Human Rights ‎Committee, which parliament's ‎deputy speaker Mahmoud El-Sherif says clearly reflects an ‎increasing interest on the part of MPs ‎in human rights issues.

The sale of the 4G licences to Egypt's mobile operators has generated around $1.1 billion in addition to EGP 10 billion ($1.1 billion) for the state’s public treasury, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser Al-Kady said on Sunday.

A Cairo prosecutor ordered on Sunday the release of a man on EGP 1,000 bail after he was arrested for possessing an amount of sugar that was over the allowed limit for individuals to hold due to an ongoing sugar shortage.

Egypt has moved up to fifth place globally in the increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, according to a ranking provided by the Financial Times.

The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) re-issued a 2005 survey study on poverty rate in Egypt, stating that 27.8 percent of the population are poor and 5.3 percent are living in extreme poverty.

Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail has ordered to form a Board of Trustees of a unit for combating money laundering and terrorism Financing, Youm7 reported on Sunday.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with Egyptian-U.S. space scientist on Saturday, reviewing photos of the latest geological survey for Egyptian underground water aquifers to rationally use them in irrigation system, said Egyptian Spokesperson Alaa Youssef in a statement.

The Egyptian-Palestinian border crossing of Rafah opens for the second day on a raw early Sunday in both directions to allow for the passage of urgent humanitarian cases, sick people and permit holders, Youm7 reported.

“Egypt’s stance towards Syria at the UN Security Council was clear. Egypt’s votes for the France-Spain-drafted resolution and the Russia-drafted resolutions, in last week, are not contradictory,” said President Abdel Fata al-Sisi during the second part of his interview with the national editors-in chief.

Iran condemned Sunday a recent Islamist militant attack on an army checkpoint in Egypt's North Sinai that killed a dozen Egyptian military personnel, the foreign ministry said.

Vodafone Egypt and Etisalat have requested fourth-generation mobile phone service licenses in Egypt, an official at the telecom regulator said on Saturday.

Following a procedural sitting on 4 October, Egypt’s parliament will begin its second session on Sunday where elections will take place for top parliamentary committee positions.

Egypt ranks sixth from bottom on a list of 141 countries in terms of travel safety and security, according a new report published by the World Economic Forum.

Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail described the country's relationship with Saudi Arabia as “good and solid” after recent reports of diplomatic tensions between the two countries, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Friday.