Talaat Shenawi, Muslim Brotherhood in Dakahlia administrative office manager, 80-year old, passed away Monday morning, after a long illness, in a Cairo hospital.

Egypt and the US discussed on Sunday means to limit ISIS's access to funding, as well as joint strategies to combat the "brutal" group's affiliates in North Africa, a US official has said.

Bishop Arsani of the Netherlands opened the St. Mark church in The Hague and held a Mass after expansion work on the church was completed.

An Israeli army veteran from the country's Arab minority has joined Islamic State insurgents in Syria, an Israeli security official said on Sunday, confirming a local media report.

The State Litigation Authority dismissed four counselors, warned five and flagged three others on Saturday for their purported connection to the politically vocal group Judges for Egypt.

Saudi and Emirati authorities say two senior officers from a Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government have been killed near the city of Taiz.

Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State militant group in Syria.

The United States and Italy on Sunday led an international diplomatic push to get Libya’s warring factions to sign a deal to form a unity government, hoping it will stop the spread of Islamic State militancy in the North African country.

The head of Al-Nour Party’s parliamentary bloc claims that the newly elected parliament is entirely dependent on businessmen and lacks experts in various other fields. Moreover, many of the new MPs won their seats through bribery, he said and that making for a legislative body that is poorly equipped to meet the needs of the nation.

Mohannad is a spy for Islamic State. He eavesdrops on chatter in the street markets of Mosul and reports back to his handlers when someone breaks the militant group's rules. One man he informed on this year – a street trader defying a ban on selling cigarettes – was fined and tortured by Islamic State fighters, according to a friend of Mohannad's family. If the trader did not stop, his torturers told the man, they would kill him.

In the first hearing of what is known as the "Rabaa dispersal case" Saturday, a Cairo court postponed proceedings to Feb. 6, when 739 defendants, including the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide, will face trial.

The Islamic State militants group on Thursday recaptured two areas in central Syria from government forces, just weeks after losing them, a monitor said.

Catholics should not try to convert Jews and should work with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a major new document that drew the Church further away from the strained relations of the past.

Iraqi officials say Islamic State militants have destroyed a lock on the Euphrates River that served as a bridge in Ramadi as government forces close in on the militant-held city west of Baghdad.

The US-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria has killed the group's finance minister and two other senior leaders in air strikes in recent weeks, a US military spokesman said on Thursday.

The Egyptian government committee tasked with listing and managing the Muslim Brotherhood’s funds announced yesterday that it has confiscated the assets of money exchange companies allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in 12 governorates, in addition to one company working in the field of electronics and computers and a school.

The highest seat of Sunni Islam, Egypt’s Al-Azhar, said in a statement on Wednesday that it is “truly concerned over smear campaigns being launched against Muslims in America.”

Former president Mohamed Morsi's nephew and five others were granted a retrial on Wednesday over charges of involvement in the Sharqiya violence that broke out following Morsi's ouster in 2013.

Some 375 books authored by writers allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood were seized in Delta’s Kafr el-Sheikh over “inciting violence and extremism,” Undersecretary of Awqaf (Religious Endowment) Ministry Saad el-Fekki told Youm7 Wednesday.

A suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 20 in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group.

The government committee tasked with managing funds of the Muslim Brotherhood group announced Wednesday it has seized 14 foreign exchange companies over affiliation with the banned group, Youm7 reported.