The recent death sentences handed down to Egypt’s first democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi and scores of others have prompted fears in the US and Europe of what experts refer to as a “total war” on the Muslim Brotherhood movement by the government in Cairo.

Amnesty International has denounced the death penalty handed down to former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi as "a charade based on null and void procedures."

The Egyptian justice minister has been forced to resign after stirring controversy following his televised defamatory remarks humiliating the country’s lower class people.

Suspected militants have detonated three explosives outside the residence of an Egyptian judge who handed down death sentences to supporters of the ousted former president, Mohamed Morsi.

At least four people have been killed in separate attacks carried out by militants in the restive Egyptian governorate of North Sinai.

The Egyptian army says it has killed 725 militants in the violence-plagued governorate of North Sinai since October last year.

An Egyptian prosecutor has summoned 40 people to court over their alleged affiliation with the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group.

The Human Rights Watch has criticized Egyptian authorities for conducting an unfair and biased trial for the country's ousted president, saying the prosecution was marred by flaws.

At least three people have been reported killed and two more injured in Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula as the nation’s president extended a seven-month-old curfew imposed on parts of North Sinai for another three months.

The Muslim Brotherhood and Amnesty International have slammed a lengthy jail term handed down to the ousted Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, over the arrest and torture of protesters in 2012.

An Egyptian court has sentenced ousted President Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison over protester deaths in 2012.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has held talks with CIA Director John Brennan amid Cairo’s heavy-handed clampdown on opponents of the country’s military-backed government.

At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

A court in Egypt has given death sentences to 11 people over a football stadium riot in the canal city of Port Said three years ago.

Egyptian people have held fresh anti-government protest rallies across the country, calling for the reinstatement of former president, Mohammed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in 2013, Press TV reports.

An Egyptian court has jailed a top aide to former president, Mohamed Morsi, further intensifying the crackdown on members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood party.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized a recent decision by an Egyptian court to confirm the death sentences previously handed down to 14 Muslim Brotherhood members on charges of orchestrating violence in Egypt.

An Egypt court has confirmed death sentences for the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement on charges of orchestrating violence following the military ouster of former president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013.

An Egyptian prosecutor has referred nearly 190 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a military court over charges of storming a police station nearly two years ago.

The head of a militant group in Egypt responsible for deadly attacks in the North African country has been killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in the capital city of Cairo, sources say.