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.

North Sinai Security Department hasarrested 26 suspects during a province-wide operation to catch fugitives from justice.

Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change and "save humanity", in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show

The U.S. and its allies in Iraq and Syria staged 29 strikes against IS group on Wednesday, the coalition leading the operations said.

An Egyptian headmistress is not being instated in her post “because she’s a Christian.” This is the claim surrounding the case of Mervat Sefein, a vocational teacher in Beni Mazar, a town of Minya, 220 km south of Cairo. Sefein was included on a Feb. 8 Egyptian Ministry of Education (MoE) promotion directive, but could not assume her new position due to “student protests.”

Secretary-General of the Muslim Brotherhood Mahmoud Hussein denied asking Egyptian lawyer and head of the Ibn Khaldun Centre for Development Studies Saad Eddin Ibrahim to mediate to reconcile the group with the current Egyptian regime, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday.

The Egyptian Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Monday that it discovered and destroyed 12 tunnels on the border with the Gaza Strip in February.

A military court in Assiut has handed down prison sentences of between five and ten years to 117 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of attacking a church and conducting an attack on an electricity transformer.