Pope Francis celebrates Mass with tens of thousands of Cubans on Sunday in Havana's Revolution Square, the political heart of Cuba where the Communist government stages its biggest rallies.

A policeman was killed when unknown attackers shot him on a street in Arish, North Sinai, the Interior Ministry said in a statement early Sunday.

A bomb went off Sunday in Ahmed Orabi Street in the up-scale district of Mohandiseen in Giza, Youm7 reported.

Sinai-based militant group “State of Sinai” claimed Sunday, in a statement circulated on affiliated social media accounts, the killing of Brigadier General Ahmed Askar, who was shot dead in Al-Arish Saturday evening.

Gaza’s Hamas rulers are calling on Egypt to halt a project aimed at destroying the last remaining smuggling tunnels along the border.

A top-performing high school student who accuses the Education Ministry of swapping her answer sheets with that of another student is holding a press conference Thursday to discuss recent developments.

Gunmen have shot dead a police general in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in the latest attack claimed by ISIS.

The Sinai Province has claimed responsibility for the Wednesday murder of General Khaled Othman in Arish while he was monitoring a checkpoint.

The Egyptian Awqaf (Religious Endowment) Ministry will hold an international conference on the renewal of religious discourse in mid November, the ministry announced Thursday.

Somalia's Shebab insurgents killed three Somali soldiers and wounded at least seven others including civilians in a roadside bomb Thursday in the southern port town of Kismayo, officials and witnesses said.

The Minya Criminal Court upheld Tuesday death sentences in absentia to eight Muslim Brotherhood supporters for violence-related charges, a judicial source told Youm7 Tuesday.

Two soldiers and 55 "terrorists" were killed on Tuesday in an ongoing joint security operation in al-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid of North Sinai, said an army statement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state has little to show for itself, a year after its establishment.

The family of late Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar has pledged allegiance to new chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour after a secret meeting in which the two sides agreed a power-sharing deal, officials said.

The Minya Criminal Court sentenced eight alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to death in a case involving violence that occurred in Samalout in Minya governorate, following the Rabaa Al-Adaweya sit-in dispersal.

After a prolonged spell of silence, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has come alive with a series of audio messages. And they're raising a few eyebrows because -- in two separate messages -- al-Zawahiri has extended an olive branch to ISIS, even while describing ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's "caliphate" as illegitimate.

The criminal court in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya sentenced eight supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi to death and 83 others to life in prison on Tuesday over charges of setting the Samalut police station on fire, resulting in the death of a police officer.

Pope Francis is likely to meet Fidel Castro during his upcoming trip to Cuba, the Vatican said Tuesday. "A meeting with Fidel Castro is probable, even if it is not yet scheduled for a specific time in the programme", spokesman Federico Lombardi told reporters ahead of the pontiff's eight-day trip to Cuba and the United States, which begins Saturday.

The moderate Islamist Wasat Party has declared it revised its policies since the release of its leader from custody detention last month, yet another sign that it might break with its past support for deposed president Mohamed Morsi.

A court in Upper Egypt's Minya sentenced to death eight individuals and handed 106 others varying prison terms on Tuesday, for accusations of involvement in violence dating back to 2013.

The centrist Islamist Wasat Party said in a statement on Monday that it will not run in the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 18, reiterating its independence from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.