A terrorism tribunal in Saudi Arabia, which was elected to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2013, has sentenced two political activists to decade-long prison terms for establishing a rights organization, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Russian air strikes in Syria's Latakia province killed a top rebel commander from a group armed by President Bashar al-Assad's foreign enemies, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.

“No to Religious Party” and “Expose Them” signed a cooperation protocol in an attempt to coordinate their strategies. The two groups, which have popular mobilisation agendas against the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist political parties, met on Saturday and issued their first joint statement.

The Ohio mosque at the center of a recent media love fest has been accused of having previous ties with the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. The Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Dublin, Ohio, welcomed a woman holding an anti-Islam sign into its mosque last week, when she showed up to protest outside of the facility. As the cameras rolled, a Muslim woman approached her and hugged her.

The Egyptian Salafists’ political arm of al-Nour party has suffered a crushing defeat in their strongholds of Alexandria, Marsa Matrouh, and Beheira in the first round of the 2015 parliament elections, according to the initial results of two-day voting.

British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled a new strategy on Monday to combat extremism, saying the battle was "perhaps the "defining one of this century", but his proposals were condemned by Muslims as demonising their communities and set to fail.

As the parliamentary elections begin, at least 12 preachers in Alexandria were referred to investigations for preaching without permission and using mosques for election publicity, the Ministry of Religious Endowments said in a statement Saturday.

Without much fanfare and publicity, another pope has arrived in the United States for a three-week visit. Following the footsteps of Pope Francis who made a six-day visit to the US last month, Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II arrived in Atlanta on Oct. 7, his first official visit to the US since his papacy began in 2012, reports said.

Tens of Muslim Brotherhood supporters and members of the National Alliance for Legitimacy took to the streets Friday morning in Alexandria, tearing down the campaign banners of parliamentary hopefuls running in the upcoming elections.

The government’s new one-nation Counter-Extremism Strategy launches today to confront and defeat all forms of extremism.

“No to Religious Party” and “Expose Them” signed a cooperation protocol in an attempt to coordinate their strategies.

One party — the banned Muslim Brotherhood — will be conspicuously absent from ballot papers Sunday when Egypt's voters head to the polls for long-delayed parliamentary elections.

The defendants faced a number of major charges, including attempting a military coup, terrorism and joining the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as attempting to forcibly occupy public institutions.

Hardline Muslims in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Sunday demanded the local government close 10 Christian churches, just days after a mob burnt down a church, leaving one person dead and several injured.

Two bombs exploded Sunday morning, on the first day of parliamentary elections, in front of one of the schools in Kerdasa. No injuries were reported.

Al-Nour Party will lead shuttle-tours in a number of provinces on the last campaigning day for the forthcoming parliamentary elections, to mobilise the largest possible number of votes. Figures of the Salafists community, including Yasser Al Borhamy, and Younes Makhioun will be participating in the conferences.

An Egyptian criminal court cleared on Thursday Mohamed Rabie Al-Zawahri from charges against him in what is known in the media as the "Zawahri cell" case, but prosecutors were quick to file a new case against him for forming a terrorist group called "Alta'efa AlMansoura" (The Victorious Sect).

A conscript and a citizen died late Wednesday in a blast that detonated in the North Sinai city of El-Arish, Egypt's interior ministry announced in a statement.

Islamist parties will be largely absent on the polling cards in Egypt’s upcoming elections, with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest Islamist group, outlawed and in disarray, and other Islamists boycotting.

The “no to religious parties” popular campaign, which strives to pressure the Egyptian authorities to dissolve all religious parties, announced Wednesday it had collected 2 million signatures of support so far, Youm7 reported.

Four imams have been banned from delivering sermons and transferred to administrative positions until investigations into alleged membership in the Muslim Brotherhood are completed.