A Croatian citizen kidnapped by Egyptian militants appeared in a video released on Wednesday, saying that he will be killed in 48 hours if Muslim women "arrested in Egyptian prisons" are not released.

The Cairo Criminal Court acquitted Monday a defendant accused of the premeditated murder of a Muslim Brotherhood member, state media reported.

The dimly-lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and kings; imperialists and socialists; occupation and liberation; war and peace.

Three unknown gunmen wounded two members of the Salafi-oriented Nour Party in Giza early Tuesday. The pair was leaving a mosque in the Kerdasa suburb before they were shot by the attackers, sustaining injuries in the stomach and chest. Both were taken to hospital.

Egyptians security officials say militants in northern Sinai have shelled a house near a security checkpoint, killing an entire family of five members inside it and wounding nine of their neighbors.

Germany has said that the Muslim Brotherhood has become in a state of "obscurity" since the assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor late June.

Five civilians from one family were killed on Tuesday when their house in North Sinai was shelled, in tandem with intense clashes between security forces and militants, sources said.

A total of 27 defendants, allegedly belong to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group, were acquitted of attempting to raid a police station south of Giza in 2013, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Cairo Administrative Court on Monday approved a request by Zamalek football club chairman Mortada Mansour to withdraw a lawsuit he had filled calling for Ultras football fan groups to be listed as terrorist organisations.

Tarek al-Zomor, the fugitive president of the Construction and Development Party, which is the political arm of the Gamaa Islamiya group, said that in addition to the party, other Islamists are also considering the possibility of refraining from occupying more than 40 percent of the seats in government over the next 10 years.

Russian security forces have killed six Islamist militants with suspected ties to foreign terrorists in the country's volatile North Caucasus, the anti-terror committee said on Monday.

The Egyptian army killed 88 suspected militants in security campaigns in North Sinai in the period between July 20 and July 31, relying on "confirmed information" from security agencies and citizens, the army spokesman said Sunday.

The Egyptian army killed 88 suspected militants in security campaigns in North Sinai in the period between July 20 and July 31, relying on "confirmed information" from security agencies and citizens, the army spokesman said Sunday.

An Egyptian court sentenced 300 loyalists of the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood group of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi for three to 10 years in prison over violence charges.

A leader of Egypt’s Muslim brotherhood movement has died in jail due to what human rights groups call “deliberate medical negligence” by prison authorities.

Egyptians associate the word “tamarod,” Arabic for “rebellion,” with the campaign launched in 2013 to topple President Mohamed Mursi. Now, the name is bestowed upon an unprecedented movement calling for the resignation of Pope Tawadros II, head of the Egyptian Coptic Church. The campaign was launched by a group called Al-Sarkha (The Scream), which demands reform of the Coptic Personal Status Law, particularly regarding permission to divorce.

In June, Pope Francis released his first independent encyclical. It merely served to highlight the indifference to the plight of persecuted Christians around the world.

Pope Francis will dispatch a delegation to attend the inauguration ceremony of the New Suez Canal on, Egypt’s ambassador to the Holly See Wafaa Basim said Thursday.

The Egyptian court was to conclude Thursday one of Egypt’s most debated cases since the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime, also among the longest trial the country has witnessed recently: the infamous “Al-Jazeera case.”

Deputies of the Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza on Wednesday renewed calls for a "revolt" against the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority over its sweeping arrests of anti-Israeli fighters.

At least 18 people were killed Thursday when Islamic State group jihadists attacked a town in northern Syria recently captured by Kurdish forces, a monitor said.