Islamic State militants have closed gates of a dam on the Euphrates River in western Iraq, reducing the water and giving them greater freedom of movement to attack government forces downstream on the southern bank, local officials said.

Two Muslim Brotherhood figures were referred to State Security prosecution shortly after their arrests, a security source said on Tuesday.

The Beni Suef Public Prosecution on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Ayman Tawfik, 28, who is accused of defaming Islam and the Prophet, and requested the Interior Ministry find out whether the blogger operates his Facebook page himself.

A worker was killed on Tuesday and three others were wounded by unidentified gunmen in central Sinai while taking a colleague of them who was injured at work to the hospital.

The Sohag Criminal Court suspended a three-year prison sentence Tuesday, against a police officer accused of assaulting the judiciary, until a verdict is rendered in the appeals court.

An Egyptian court on Tuesday adjourned its final verdict against leading Muslim Brotherhood members in the Hamas espionage case to 16 June, and adjourned the final verdict against Mohamed Morsi in the Natroun prison break case to the same date.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday following talks between coalition countries fighting Islamic State that they were united in the combat against the group but acknowledged that the battle would be long.

Two Muslim Brotherhood figures were referred to State Security prosecution shortly after their arrests, a security source said on Tuesday.

A Cairo court on Monday adjourned the trial of three Al Jazeera television journalists for four days after hearing the prosecution's closing argument that their reporting had endangered Egypt's national security.

Dar al-Ifta issued a statement Monday pressing for regional unity and condeming threats made to Shias by the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State.

The sentenced Alexandrian labour activist Mahienour El-Massry once said from her prison cell that “sacrifice is nothing compared to the suffering of the poor”.

Dar al-Ifta issued a statement Monday pressing for regional unity and condeming threats made to Shias by the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State.

A Muslim Brotherhood leader has said that the group’s operations, launched in revenge for the government crackdown on the group's loyalists have managed to avoid causing innocent casualties. The local media has taken his article as evidence of the group’s involvement in violent attacks.

In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom.

The head of Egypt's state human rights agency says 2,600 people, nearly half of them supporters of the nation's ousted president, were killed in violence over an 18-month period starting June 30, 2013.

Islamic State fighters advanced against rival insurgents in northern Syria on Sunday, capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Dual-citizen Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, who were sentenced to death or have been detained pending investigations, will not cede their Egyptian nationality to be freed, MB lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud told The Cairo Post Saturday.

Islamic show host Islam al-Beheiry was sentenced in absentia to five years with labour for charges of being in contempt of religion on Saturday.

Turkish President Reecep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a fresh attack on Egypt over the death sentence handed to former president Mohamed Morsi, a major ally to Ankara.

Two improvised explosive devices detonated on a railroad track in the North of Egypt on Wednesday, halting train movement in the governorate of Gharbia, a security official said.

A total of 406 students from Al Azhar University will be banned from taking their final exams over participating in on- campus riots, a university source told Youm7 Thursday.