Egyptian police said on Monday that explosives found during a Sunday raid on an apartment in Giza's Kerdasa were the same type used in a bomb that killed eight policemen and three civilians during another raid in Haram on Thursday.

A 24-year-old was killed in Beni Suef in a gun battle with the police Monday as they attempted to raid his home, Youm7 reported.

The aggregate value of seized assets, cash and personal banking accounts that belong to members of Egypt’s banned Muslim Brotherhood are worth the equivalent of $1.1 billion, according to Ahram Online calculations based on an official inventory announced on Sunday.

Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Eldamaty inaugurated four newly restored medieval buildings in the Al-Khalifa area of Islamic Cairo on Sunday.

A day before the fifth anniversary of the 25 January Revolution, a state committee charged with appraising the assets of the banned Muslim Brotherhood accused the group of planning to “Islamise” the state during their year in power.

A panel tasked by the Justice Ministry to oversee the confiscation of assets and the closure of NGOs owned by the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has said it discovered documents that include plans by the group’s ousted government to subdue security and judicial services.

The state's committee tasked with managing Muslim Brotherhood funds said Sunday it seized the money of 1,370 Muslim Brotherhood members since it commenced its work in late 2013.

The Interior Ministry said late Wednesday seven of its personnel were killed when armed attackers shot at them while policing a public square in Arish, North Sinai.

An Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on a checkpoint in the country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula that killed five policemen.

Islam El-Beheiry made Egyptian headlines as one of the most debated topics related to the religion of Islam in 2015. The story began when the young Islamic researcher presented himself as an innovator of religious speech. On his programme With Islam El-Beheiry challenged the authenticity of the heritage of conservative interpretations of religious texts.

Five years ago, no one would have expected that a terror group would seize a piece of land the size of one third of Iraq, use social media to promote its propaganda, operate hospitals and universities, and run an oil business to fund itself. These are features typically confined to the purview of the state and its infrastructure networks.

With the expansion of religious radicalism, the Egyptian state has increasingly articulated itself as a sovereign power that can mitigate extremist proliferation, even at the cost of human rights. Religious discourse was one of the first issues addressed by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi when he assumed power in June 2014.

The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State's relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites.

Sharqiya prosecutors detained 15 Muslim Brotherhood members for 15 days pending investigation over charges of joining a banned group, inciting violence and for calling for protests on the January 25 Revolution anniversary.

The Court of Cassation on Saturday set Feb. 3 for an appeal hearing on mass death sentences handed down to 149 defendants for storming Kerdasa police station, Youm7 reported.

In June 1981, Cairo’s Al-Zawiya Al-Hamra neighbourhood witnessed one of the most violent incidents of sectarian strife, in which hundreds were killed and injured. A personal dispute on the ownership of a land was the initial cause of the violent clashes between Muslims and Coptic Christians.

Egypt's administrative court has upheld a decision by Cairo University that prohibits staff members from wearing the Niqab, the full face veil.

The Egyptian Administrative Court annulled on Tuesday a former media gag order imposed on a case referred to in the Egyptian media as the “the 2012 presidential elections fraud case.”

MP Mohamed Abu Hamed requested that religious lessons be banned in private homes and villas during the parliament's Tuesday session.

The United States and it allies staged two dozen strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.

A police officer, two conscripts and two civilians were injured Tuesday as a bomb went off in North Sinai's capital city Arish, the interior ministry said.