Hamas has declared the border area between Egypt and the Gaza Strip a “closed military zone” on Monday as the Sinai hostage crisis enters its fifth day. The closure was announced early on Monday morning, according state-run Al-Ahram, and all known tunnels are said to be closed.

A judge has referred 12 more people to court for their involvement in the violence in the town of Al-Khosous in April that claimed the lives of seven people and was the spark for further sectarian violence.

Cairo Criminal Court has issued a life prison sentence of 25 years and a fine of LE20,000 ($2,800) for Salafist Hazemoon movement member Ahmed Arafa, on possession of firearms without a licence.

Prominent preachers from Egypt's ultra-conservative Salafist Call have again lambasted the "ruling" Muslim Brotherhood for their policies that they say contradict with Islamic teachings.

Samir Sabri, a lawyer, filed a complaint to the Supreme State Security Prosecution against Ahmed Mamhoud Abdullah, also known as Abu Islam, because he threatened Christians in Egypt.

An al Qaeda-linked militant cell detained in Egypt was planning suicide attacks on the French and U.S. embassies, the state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday, quoting investigators.

Islamist group Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya will focus efforts to end sectarian strife, said leaders and members of the group’s political wing the Building and Development Party (BDP) in a press conference on Wednesday.

A number of Egyptian prosecutors have recommended establishing a specialized committee to investigate crimes of human trafficking, saying there are loops in the existing legislation.

Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it.

Perched on a rooftop, his face concealed by a black mask, an Egyptian anarchist lobbed a firebomb at the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the name of a “second revolution.”

Israeli newspaper Maariv published a video clip on Monday showing an attack by Israeli police on Bishop Anthasius of Ramallah's Egyptian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem during Easter celebrations last week.

Ihab El-Islamboly, an English teacher in Alexandria, was questioned by police on Tuesday for setting a "politicised" exam question that "insulted" President Mohamed Morsi.

Members of the anti-President Morsi 'Rebel' campaign were assaulted in Cairo on Monday afternoon, allegedly by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Director of the Iranian-Egyptian Chamber of Commerce Sabah Zangana has dismissed Egyptian fears that a spike in tourism collaboration would lead to a spread in Shi'ite influence in Sunni-majority Egypt.

Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, founder of the Salafist Raya Party, has condemned the anti-Morsi 'Rebel' campaign, claiming it has no legal or constitutional basis.

Deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party Essam El-Erian on Tuesday called on Egyptian officials to take pre-emptive measures ahead of the Umrah pilgrimage season after Saudi Arabian authorities confirmed that 15 people in the kingdom had succumbed to the deadly coronavirus.

Egypt's Prosecutor-General Talaat Abdullah sets bail for Coptic Christian primary school teacher Demiana Emad, accused of insulting Islam, at LE20,000 ($2,870).

An Egyptian imam has slammed hardline TV fatwas, or religious edicts, in an impassioned speech at the opening of the Arab Media Forum in Dubai.

Speaking to FNA in Cairo, Badr al-Falah, also a former Egyptian parliamentarian, stated that any dispute in Egypt's political circles over the resumption of Tehran-Cairo ties is "unjustifiable" since Iran is a powerful country with extensive relations with other nations, and the US, Israel and the former Egyptian regime are the only states which have cut their relations with Iran.

Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed El-Beshlawy, caught on video slapping a female activist in front of the Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam in mid-March has been released on LE500 ($70) bail

Egypt's interior minister said yesterday police arrested three members of an Al Qaeda-linked cell in an alleged transnational plot to bomb a Western embassy and other targets in the country.