The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday that Islamic State's group military commander was badly wounded but still alive, appearing to contradict U.S. officials who said he was likely killed in a U.S. air strike.

Germany’s federal criminal police say they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group and believe them to be authentic. Thursday’s announcement comes after Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State files on the border with Turkey and Syria, detailing IS fighters’ real names, telephone numbers, and even names of those who sponsored and recruited the fighters.

Three police soldiers were reportedly killed Tuesday night and seven others wounded in two explosions in Egypt’s North Sinai governorate, where Islamist militants are active and have pledged allegiance to the “Islamic State” (IS).

Police announced they killed a “wanted militant” Wednesday in an exchange of fire with police south of Giza, Youm7 reported.

Tunisian troops have killed seven more Islamist militants during raids in Ben Guerdan, the town on the Libyan border where at least 55 people died during an attack on Monday by Islamic State fighters, the army said on Wednesday.

The Islamic State (IS) group's battle-tested equivalent of a defense minister is believed to have been killed in a US air strike in northeastern Syria, a US official here said.

In a raid that bore the hallmarks of a foreign special forces unit, soldiers dropped off by helicopters hiked through the nighttime dark to a town controlled by Islamic militants. Then a firefight erupted.

Officials of the Iran-allied Houthi movement are in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Yemen’s war, two officials from a Houthi-controlled administrative body said on Tuesday.

Tunisian Prime Minister Habid Essid says the death toll from clashes between Tunisian forces and extremist attackers near the Libyan border has risen to 55, including 36 attackers.

A blast in North Sinai's al-Arish city left two policeman killed and three injured on Monday, the interior ministry said in a statement.

Lawyer Islam Salamah was allegedly arrested Monday night by police forces from his house in Gharbeya, according to his family.

Egypt has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted army and police posts in the Tunisian town of Ben Guerden near the Libyan border on Monday, killing at least 50 people.

The Los Angeles Times newspaper in a March 5 article said Egyptian Christians feel safer under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi although bias continues against them.

The Egyptian Parliament is drafting a new law preventing women wearing the niqab (full-face veil) in government institutions and public places, according to a statement released by MP Amna Nosseir, professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University.

A policeman was killed after an armored vehicles crossed over a roadside bomb on the International Coastal Road in Arish, North Sinai, Youm7 reported Monday.

The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday in their latest round of daily strikes, according to the coalition leading the operations.

The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church is studying ‘loosening’ the regulations for issuing second marriage licenses, according to state media.

The Egyptian interior minister said on Sunday that leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey and the group's Palestinian offshoot Hamas were behind the assassination of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat on 29 June, 2015.

Egypt's general prosecution ordered the detention of six suspects for 15 days pending investigation into charges of killing the prosecutor-general in June 2015, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on Sunday.

The Supreme State Security Prosecution ordered on Sunday the detention of six suspects for 15 days pending questioning over the assassination of former chief prosecutor Hesham Barakat.

Two security personnel and a medic were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in North Sinai, according to security and medical sources. The bomb was detonated by terrorists as troops from the governorate's security forces were passing along the road to the south of Sheikh Zuwayed City.