A child suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing himself, two other bombers and six people in Nigeria's northeast, in the latest bloodshed blamed on Boko Haram Islamist group, the army said on Monday.

ISIS is preventing civilians from leaving Ramadi ahead of an attack planned by the Iraqi army to retake the western city that the militants captured in May, an Iraqi Defence Ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyed met with Sheikh Moawad Awad Ibrahim, the oldest Al-Azhar centenarian, on Monday.

An internal review of the Muslim Brotherhood commissioned by the Prime Minister, while stopping short from calling the group a terrorist organisation, said that it was founded on the premise that “secularisation and westernisation were at the root of all contemporary problems of Arab and Muslim societies.”

Membership or association with the Muslim Brotherhood is a "possible indicator of extremism" but it will not be banned, the prime minister has said.

Christmas shoppers and tourists were caught up in two separate bomb scares in the northern Italian city of Turin on Sunday, after anonymous callers said a museum and shopping centre would be hit.

A bomb exploded in North Sinai’s Al-Arish on Sunday near a hotel that witnessed the killings of judges supervising parliamentary polls last month.

Diplomats expect British Prime Minister David Cameron may authorise bombing missions against “Islamic State” (IS) in Libya as early as this week to extend the UK war on terrorism, the Guardian’s Observer reported.

The Port Said Criminal Court sentenced 18 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi to 3 years in prison on Sunday over charges of violence outside Port Said’s Al-Arab Prison in 2013. Two other defendants were sentenced to life in prison in absentia.

Dar Al-Ifta announced the establishment of an “Islamophobia observatory” Sunday, which will be responsible for spotting and observing the phenomenon and how to deal and manage it.

Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood criticized as unacceptable and politically-motivated the results of a British review that concluded membership of the Islamist group was an indicator of extremism.

Ezzat Khamis, the head of the judicial committee to count and manage the funds of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), announced Wednesday the committee will execute court orders to seize properties affiliated with the dissolved MB’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).

The ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood is “counter to British values of democracy,” stated British Prime Minister David Cameron wrote in a statement delivered to the parliament Thursday.

Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood criticized as unacceptable and politically-motivated the results of a British review that concluded membership of the Islamist group was an indicator of extremism.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who opened fire on a San Bernardino holiday party earlier this month, were buried Tuesday in a quiet, graveside funeral guarded by FBI agents.

Iraq's prime minister responded to protests this summer over failing public services by launching a campaign against corruption and mismanagement, yet more than four months later there is little sign of improvement in one key sector: healthcare.

The local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood defied on Monday the decision of the group’s London-based international office to replace Mohamed Montaser with Taalat Fahmy as the group’s media spokesperson in Egypt.

A draft resolution to be submitted to the UN Security Council takes "explicit" aim at the Islamic State group and its lucrative trade in oil, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin told AFP in an interview Wednesday.

Reporters of partisan and privately-owned newspaper were denied entry into a hearing of former President Mohamed Morsi’s espionage trial Wednesday, while reporters of state-run publication were allowed, Youm7 reported.

A soldier was killed in Arish, North Sinai after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt during a security campaign Tuesday, Youm7 reported.

One of Germany's most prominent Islamic extremists has been arrested on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group.