Islamic State (IS) group has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

A number of Islamic books in English were delivered by Egypt’s ambassador to New Zealand to head of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ,) MENA reported Sunday.

Former state TV anchor Tarek Abdel Gaber will return to Egypt on Wednesday, according to his lawyer Tarek Al-Awady.

An Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia says its militants detonated two explosive devices in front of a police station in the city of al-Dalam, setting fire to three police vehicles.

The Islamic State militants group (IS) has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed a policeman in Russia's volatile region of Dagestan.

As a part of his two-day visit to Egypt, German interior minister Thomas de Maizière delivered a speech to students from Al-Azhar University that focused on religious tolerance, according to an official statement from Al-Azhar.

A drone strike near the Islamic State group's (IS) de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a militant commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation's chief, a monitoring group said Thursday.

The Administrative Court of Alexandria has blocked the demolition of a church belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, in the process issuing a ruling that prohibits the demolition of any church in Egypt.

Arabic-language guide Razan Nassreddine says Syrian refugees visiting Berlin's Museum of Islamic Art often ask her how and when the artifacts clearly marked as stemming from their war-torn country ended up in the German capital.

The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs will publish a book in April dealing with the protection of churches in Islam, according to Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa.

Cairo Criminal Court has handed down harsh jail sentences to 23 denfendants convicted on charges related to the 2013 Maspero clashes, which resulted in at least 10 deaths.

A delegation from Palestinian faction Hamas arrived at Cairo early Wednesday, coming from Doha, to discuss border issues and improvement of relations with the government in Egypt.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced 15 defendants to 25 years in prison in the trial of the so-called "Maspero 2 clashes" that took place in July 2013 following Islamist President Mohamed Morsi's ouster.

Some 13 alleged militants were killed in military raids in restive North Sinai during the past 24 hours, Youm7 quoted security sources Wednesday.

Pakistani authorities detained more than 5,000 suspected militants in two days since a suicide bomber attacked crowds in a busy park in the eastern city of Lahore on Easter Day, killing at least 70 people, a provincial minister said on Tuesday.

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Tuesday morning in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 27, a police spokesman said.

Under-fire Belgian authorities hunted a fugitive bomber Tuesday, a week after the attacks on the heart of Europe, as the city's airport warned it could take months to fully reopen despite holding a drill for a partial restart.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least three people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State militants group (IS), officials said.

Syrian forces pressed their offensive against the Islamic State group (IS) on Monday, the day after seizing control of the ancient city of Palmyra in a major blow for the militants.

An Alexandria court sentenced on Sunday a police officer to three years in prison for torturing Salafist Sayed Belal to death, his lawyer Maged Ali told Ahram Online. The ruling marks a significant reduction in the convicted officer’s previous prison sentence.

Russian ground forces did not take part in the Syrian army’s operation to drive Islamic State fighters out of the city of Palmyra, but the Russian air force did and it will continue assisting Syrian government troops, the Kremlin said on Monday.