The top Cairo-based Muslim body al-Azhar has slammed the recent massacre of nearly 150 people at the hands of the Somali militant group of al-Shabab in eastern Kenya.

At least 100 terrorists have been killed in the Egyptian army’s strikes against terrorists’ positions in the restive region of North Sinai over the past 24 hours.

Egypt's top prosecutor has named several members of the Muslim Brotherhood movement as terrorists under a controversial anti-terrorism law adopted last month.

Egyptian security officials say a bomb explosion in the capital, Cairo, has claimed the life of at least one person.

Three Persian Gulf Arab states have pledged to provide Egypt with an aid package of USD 12 billion to help the North African country’s lumbering economy.

At least one Egyptian army officer has been killed in a militant attack against a security checkpoint in the North African country’s restive Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptian authorities have once again sealed a key border crossing with the Israeli-besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip.

Egypt has temporarily opened a key border crossing with the Israeli-besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip for the first time in nearly two months.

An audio recording newly released by an Egyptian TV station shows that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) helped a military coup in Egypt which led to the ouster of the first freely-elected President Mohamed Morsi and the coming to power of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi as the new president.

The Egyptian security forces have killed 28 Takfiri terrorists and arrested 16 others following large-scale operations in North Sinai.

Egypt is hosting an international conference on the rising threats of Takfiri terrorism in the Middle East and concerted efforts to counter the extremist militants, who are distorting the image of Islam, Press TV reports.

An Egyptian court has ruled that parts of the country’s election law run counter to the constitution.

Egypt’s prosecutors have referred at least 271 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to a military court over alleged charges of attacking government buildings in central Egypt two years ago.

Egypt has slammed a report by Amnesty International that accused Cairo of being responsible for civilian deaths in recent airstrikes on militant targets in eastern Libya.

An Egyptian military court has postponed the trial over 2013 clashes of the opposition party Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide and 198 others.

Over the past four days, at least 1,000 Egyptians have been evacuated from Libya, the country where the ISIL Takfiri terrorists were recently shown purportedly beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians.

A court in Egypt has sentenced prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in jail.

A court in Egypt has acquitted a former oil minister, who served under ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak, of charges of selling cheap gas to Israel.

Unidentified gunmen have reportedly opened fire on a traffic police vehicle in the Nile Delta town of Banha in Egypt, killing a police officer and injuring three more.

At least 40 people have been killed during clashes between police and fans before a football match in the Egyptian capital Cairo.