More than 2 million Muslims on Tuesday started the first rites of the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s largest religious pilgrimages that draws people from different countries to the holy city of Mecca to perform a series of rituals and prayers aimed at erasing past sins.

The Egyptian military announced the killing of 10 insurgents, which it says belonged to “an extremely dangerous, armed terrorist cell” near Bahareya Oasis in the Western Desert, according to a press release on their official Facebook page.

The Egyptian army killed ten members of a “terrorist cell" in the Bahariya Oasis on Monday, a statement by the army spokesman read.

ISIS have announced that an affiliated group is responsible for the bomb which went off near a foreign ministry building in the Greater Cairo district of Agouza on Sunday.

The Salafi Call has lambasted a columnist who said people, including Muslims, acquire their faith by coincidence.

The head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Tawadros II, will visit Ethiopia on 27 September on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Cross, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported on Monday.

ISIS have announced that an affiliated group is responsible for the bomb which went off near a foreign ministry building in the Greater Cairo district of Agouza on Sunday.

House Speaker John Boehner has been trying for 20 years to get a pope to come talk to Congress. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says it’s “thrilling beyond words.”

Nine people have been arrested in Ismailia for their implication in 29 “terrorist attacks,” and guns, ammunition and explosive devices were seized in their “dens,” according to a Monday police statement.

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.