The head of Egypt's state human rights agency says 2,600 people, nearly half of them supporters of the nation's ousted president, were killed in violence over an 18-month period starting June 30, 2013.

Islamic State fighters advanced against rival insurgents in northern Syria on Sunday, capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Dual-citizen Muslim Brotherhood (MB) leaders, who were sentenced to death or have been detained pending investigations, will not cede their Egyptian nationality to be freed, MB lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsoud told The Cairo Post Saturday.

Islamic show host Islam al-Beheiry was sentenced in absentia to five years with labour for charges of being in contempt of religion on Saturday.

Turkish President Reecep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a fresh attack on Egypt over the death sentence handed to former president Mohamed Morsi, a major ally to Ankara.

Two improvised explosive devices detonated on a railroad track in the North of Egypt on Wednesday, halting train movement in the governorate of Gharbia, a security official said.

A total of 406 students from Al Azhar University will be banned from taking their final exams over participating in on- campus riots, a university source told Youm7 Thursday.

A police brigadier was killed and a police colonel injured when an IED (improvised explosive device) detonated Wednesday in North Sinai, MENA news agency reported.

A top Islamic State figure has made an appearance in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, residents said, and a security expert identified him as "the blind judge" who ranks second in terms of religious authority within the militant group.

Hamas forces tortured and killed more than 23 Palestinians allegedly accused of collaborating with Israel during its war on Gaza strip between July and August 2013, said Amnesty international in a report issued Wednesday.

Hamas has called on Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing, labelling the demand a “political and humanitarian cause”.

A policeman was killed and another was injured on Wednesday when an explosive device went off in North Sinai's al-Arish city the Interior Ministry said.

An Egyptian court sentenced to death eight militants, including Islamist Adel Habara, charged with killing seven soldiers in an attack in the Nile Delta in early 2014, security and judicial sources said on Tuesday.

Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip Wednesday morning, although no casualties were reported as a result.

Young members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation have criticised a call for "peacefulness" from an exiled senior organisation figure online, amid Egypt's ongoing crackdown on the 87-year-old Islamist movement.

Egyptian Foreign ministry summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Cairo Tuesday to inform him that Cairo rejects a Pakistani statement over Former President Mohamed Morsi’s death sentence.

Founder of Tamarod movement Walid al-Barsh said that head of the Jamaa al-Islamiya Shura Council Ossama Hafez rejected the messages sent to the group through mediators to reconcile with the "homeland" and activate the initiative on stopping violence and excluding extremists from the group's leadership.

The Ministry of Religious Endowments held a forum for renewing religious discourse in Egypt on Monday in downtown Cairo. The forum witnessed a large turnout including Culture Minister Abdel Wahed Al-Nabawy, Sports Minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz, religious scholars, and professors.

Security forces killed 12 suspected militants during raids on North Sinai's cities of al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid late Monday, reported the state news agency MENA.

Egypt only invited influential tribes to attend the Libyan Tribes Conference hosted in Cairo; no invitations were sent to militias or political parties, foreign ministry spokesperson badr abdel atty told Anadolu Turkish news agency Monday.

Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 17 other leaders have challenged their designation on the Egypt's national list of terrorists, according to a judicial source.