The Religious Endowments Ministry distributed a leaflet to mosques on Monday that instructs imams to prohibit participation in protests on January 25 during Friday sermons. The leaflet quoted a fatwa issued by Dar al-Iftaa that says protesting on that day violates Islam and is forbidden in accordance with Islamic teachings.

Islamic State’s territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the hardline Islamist group on the estimates from the coalition, made up of countries including Britain, France and Jordan that have been bombing its positions.

North Sinai security forces killed 32 militants and arrested six suspects in the context of the "Martyr's Right" military operation in the towns of Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid, said the army spokesman Tuesday. The Egyptian army undertook the first phase of the security operation in Northern Sinai last September. The first phase of the operation lasted for 16 days and the army announced that it will begin the second phase.

Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the US-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday.

An attack by Islamic State militants on Libya’s Es Sider oil export terminal on Monday killed two guards and set an oil storage tank on fire, a Petrol Facilities Guard source said.

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Monday a life sentence handed to Muslim Brotherhood chief and spiritual guide Mohamed Badie over violence-related charges in an appeal session, ordering a retrial.

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 13 other group leaders were granted retrial on Monday over charges of instigating the murder of nine opposition protesters outside the organization’s headquarter, the Guidance Bureau, in 2013.

The Islamophobia Observatory of Dar al-Iftaa condemned Monday Chinese authorities for preventing the Azan (call to Muslim prayers through mosque microphones) and preventing children from entering mosques in Xinjiang Chinese territory.

Fans of Islam Beheiry protested outside the South Cairo Court on Monday as the court considered a challenge by the media host, who was sentenced to one year in prison over blasphemy charges.

Iran's president Sunday condemned the Saudi execution of a Shia cleric but also denounced attacks on the Sunni kingdom's embassy and consulate as "totally unjustifiable" after protesters stormed the compounds.

Cairo Appeals Court has set February 8 for the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 36 others over charges of plotting terrorist attacks.

A total of 26 “terrorist elements” were killed and five suspects were arrested Saturday during security raids in North Sinai, according to a Sunday military statement.

Egypt is in need of a "change of religious discourse" or at least this is what the people who matter in the country say, with the president making the reference in at least two of his speeches this year.

The Cairo Court of Appeals set the date for the first retrial session of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 37 others in the case known as "Rabaa Operations Room" on Feb. 8.

The Islamic State (ISIS) group on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombing of two restaurants in a predominantly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria the previous night, an attack that killed at least 16 people and wounded 35.

Al-Azhar expressed concern on Thursday toward extremist ideas broadcast though a Coptic satellite channel, aiming to "sow sedition and unrest among citizens in these difficult times".

A total of 160 books authored by “extremist writers” who belong to the Muslim Brotherhood have been confiscated from mosques in Damietta, Youm7 reported Thursday.

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of St. Mark See held mass Thursday morning to mark the sixth anniversary of Alexandria’s Two Saints Church bombing that killed 24 Coptic Christians on New Year’s Eve 2010, Youm7 reported.

ISIS group has claimed it was behind a deadly shooting at an ancient citadel in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan, an area increasingly becoming a hotbed of extremism.

An Islamic State (ISIS) leader with "direct" ties to the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks was among 10 of the group's higher-ups killed in Syria and Iraq this month, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The US military says such strikes are helping to weaken the militants group, which captured large parts of Iraq and Syria last year but has recently seen significant setbacks including this week's loss of Ramadi in Iraq.

A Cairo appeals court will consider on January 4 a challenge by media host Islam Beheiry against his one-year sentence over charges of blasphemy.