Libya's self-declared government in Tripoli carried out air strikes on Islamic State militant positions in the city of Sirte, hitting a building where fighters had gathered, officials and witnesses said.

Bombings of two houses in North Sinai's al-Arish city left 8 injured, including civilians, on Monday as a dozen suspected militants were killed in security forces' operations, source said.

Former President Mohamed Morsi appeared in an execution red uniform on Sunday during a court trial on charges of espionage.

According to judicial sources, Mohamed Wahdan, Mahmoud Ghezlan, Mohamed Saad Elaiwa, Mahmoud Ezzat and 16 other fugitive Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been referred to military trial over charges of espionage for terrorist organizations and planning to kill police and military leaders, as well as media personnel.

Cairo Criminal Court resumes on Sunday the trial of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and ten others for allegedly leaking classified documents to Qatar.

Pope Francis said on Sunday the mistreatment of migrants escaping war and injustice "makes one cry" as he visited the northern Italian city of Turin, stopping to pray before an icon some Christians believe is Jesus' burial cloth.

Islamic State group has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, home to Roman-era ruins, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday.

Egypt's foreign affairs ministry on Wednesday said it rejected some countries "offending the Egyptian judiciary", following mass death sentences on Tuesday against over 100 defendants including ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi.

Boko Haram militants attacked two villages in southern Niger’s Diffa region overnight, killing at least 30 civilians, two security sources said on Thursday.

Defense lawyers representing former president Mohamed Morsi are appealing a 20-year prison sentence handed down on the former leader in April over charges of inciting murder.

In the year since it declared its "caliphate," the Islamic State group has become the world's most infamous jihadist organisation, attracting international franchises and spreading fear with acts of extreme violence.

Pope Francis demanded swift action on Thursday to save the planet from environmental ruin, urging world leaders to hear "the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor", plunging the Catholic Church into political controversy over climate change.

The death sentences served to Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and five others for escaping prison in 2011 is a "worrying development", the European Union said late Tuesday.

Al Qaeda militants in Yemen executed two Saudi men accused of spying for the United States on Wednesday, two eyewitnesses said, a day after the group announced its leader was killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike.

Bombs found at an abandoned stronghold of Boko Haram Islamists exploded, killing at least 13 people and injuring 45 others in northeast Nigeria, locals and a hospital source said.

International human rights organisations condemned Egypt’s criminal court’s new death sentences handed to deposed president Mohamed Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders on Tuesday.

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for respect for migrants and suggested that "people and institutions" who close doors to them should seek forgiveness from God.

A Cairo court on Tuesday sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death and to life in jail in two different trials, as Egyptian courts continue to rule in cases against alleged supporters of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group from which he hails.

Security forces have arrested a man on Tuesday in the Daqahleya governorate, claiming he was the leader of a local “Islamic State” (IS) cell consisting of six members, as reported by local Egyptian media outlets.

An Egyptian court's decision to sentence deposed President Mohamed Morsi to death was based on politics, not the law, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday.

After 16 days of forced disappearance, Esra Al-Tawil has been spotted at the Al-Qanater prison, according to the "Freedom for the Brave" Facebook page.