Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate published a photograph it said showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it had threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday.

Apache helicopters carried out air strikes on "Ansar bayt al-Maqdis militants" in North Sinai on Tuesday, leaving 15 dead and 10 injured, security sources said.

Al-Azhar has condemned Amnesty International’s recent move to push for decriminalization of sex workers, calling it “satanic”, Al-Masry Al-Youm reports.

A Giza criminal court ordered late Monday the release of Wasat Party head Abul-Ela Madi - a staunch supporter of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi - after he spent over two years behind bars.

Leaders of the Jama'a al-Islamiya, both in Egypt or fugitive abroad, agreed to appoint Osama Hafez, vice-president of the group’s Shura Council, as president of the council, informed source said.

Egyptian prosecutors referred Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and other group leaders to trial for holding an "armed encampment" in Cairo's Rabaa Sqaure, a prosecution statement said.

Egypt's minister of social solidarity ordered the dissolution of 10 NGOs and the suspension of the administrations of 29 NGOs for being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and other members of the outlawed group were referred to a criminal court Tuesday over new crime-related charges, according to a statement from General Prosecution.

Cairo Criminal Court sentenced on Monday ten people to death over charges of forming an Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist cell led by the brother of Al-Qaeda’s chief.

A panel formed by the Justice Ministry to freeze the assets of the Muslim Brotherhood decided on Monday to seize 16 hospitals believed to be ran by the group in five provinces.

Three policemen were wounded on Monday when a bomb exploded under a traffic sentry post near a Cairo court, security sources said, the latest in a series of attacks to hit the Egyptian capital.

Pope Francis, riding a wave of mostly positive reaction to his encyclical on ecology, on Monday set up a Catholic "World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation" to draw attention to the plight of the planet.

A suspected jihadist has been shot dead in western Tunisia near the Algerian border, a region where security forces have been hunting militants since 2012, the interior ministry announced Monday.

Jamaa Islamiya leading figure Essam Derbala died in prison on Sunday, with the Islamist group saying he was prevented from access to medicine.

A roadside bomb killed two Egyptian policemen on Sunday as they were travelling in an armoured vehicle in Al-Arish in North Sinai, the interior ministry has said.

Yasser Borhamy, vice president of the Salafi Dawah, has called on citizens to donate the interests of their Suez Canal savings certificates to pay Egypt’s debts.

Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has called for higher vigilance and better preparedness in the kingdom after a suicide attack claimed by Islamic State on a security forces mosque killed 15 people, state news agency SPA reported late on Saturday.

A suicide bomb attack on in a mosque in Abha city in south west Saudi Arabia killed 17 people on Thursday, Saudi state television channel al-Ekhbariya reported.

A suicide bomb attack inside a mosque in a local security forces headquarters in Abha city in south-west Saudi Arabia killed 13 people and wounded nine on Thursday, the Saudi state news agency reported, citing an interior ministry spokesman.

First a suicide bomber kills three Libyan soldiers at a checkpoint in the eastern city of Benghazi. When the army sends in reinforcements, Islamist fighters holed up in nearby buildings open fire, killing six more.