Egypt’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Saturday Burkina Faso hotel attack that killed at least 23 people.

Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.

Bishoy Kamel was supposed to walk free from his military service in February. Instead, his family collected his body three months earlier. The corpse bore “signs of torture”, the family said.

A debate that's been raging in churches for centuries could finally be resolved.

A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam's teachings, according to a new poll.

The government is seeking to strengthen security measures in tourist resorts located in Sharm El-Shiekh and Hurghada with an allocation of $32m (EGP 250m), Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou announced Thursday.

Islamic State (ISIS) carried out the attacks in Jakarta earlier on Thursday, a news agency allied to the group reported.

On 12-13 January, the UK and Egypt held the 10th round of regular military-to-military staff talks in Cairo.

The Egyptian police on Wednesday arrested two Muslim Brotherhood members for managing 47 Facebook pages that call for protests on January 25.

The Cabinet approved the draft of a presidential decree imposing jail, a LE10,000-LE30,000 fine, or both penalties to people possessing or trading items that promote groups considered by authorities to be terrorist organizations on Wednesday.

A police officer and a conscript were killed Saturday morning after their vehicle was attacked by anonymous gunmen in Giza, the interior ministry said.

The United States and its allies staged two dozen strikes against Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, the military coalition leading the operations said in a statement.

The Islamic State group (ISIS) Wednesday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack targeting the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.

A total of 42 book authored by leaders of “extremist ideology” were confiscated from mosques in Sohag, Upper Egypt in 2015, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badei was transferred Tuesday to a hospital to undergo an inguinal hernia surgery, Youm7 reported.

Egypt strongly condemned the “terrorist bomb attack” that rocked Istanbul Tuesday, calling on the international community to join hands against “terrorism,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

Security forces in Alexandria announced Tuesday the arrest of nine people over accusations of plotting to incite violence and chaos and disturbing state institutions during the fifth anniversary of the January 25 Revolution, Alexandria Security Directorate announced in a statement.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi issued a decree on Tuesday extending for three months the state of emergency in a number of troubled spots in North Sinai. The renewed state of emergency will be enforced in the cities of Arish, Sheikh Zuwayed and Rafah, according to Sisi’s decree.

Egyptian member of parliament for three consecutive terms since 2005, founder and subsequent president of the Reform and Development Party, and nephew of late President Anwar Sadat, Mohamed Anwar Esmat al-Sadat affirmed that he and his family fell victim to many difficult circumstances due to their political stances, including being stripped of his membership in the 2007 People’s Assembly, only 48 hours after being elected, in a precedent never before seen in the Egyptian parliament. He also recounted seeing his brother Talaat, also an MP, jailed for one year after being convicted by a military court of contempt of the military, which he accused of complacency in protecting President Anwar Sadat when the latter was assassinated in 1981.

The head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, will make his first visit as Pope to the southern province of Luxor Monday, according to the media centre of the St. Mark Cathedral.

Egyptian police forces deployed near the border with Libya have been put on a high state of alert following airstrikes on Libyan soil by unidentified fighter jets late Sunday.