Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday.

A Saudi police colonel was shot dead in the Riyadh region on Tuesday, the interior ministry said, with the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack.

Dar al-Iftaa of Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to issue “sober fatwas” and overcome differences in views in an endeavor to confront extremism, Youm7 reported Sunday.

The Ismailia Criminal Court resumed Monday a trial session of Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 104 other co-defendants in the case known as the “Ismailia incidents,” Youm7 reported.

The Czech Republic will send back to Iraq a group of Iraqi Christians who tried to move on to Germany instead of staying in the country, Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said on Sunday.

A prominent leader in Syrian al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front was killed on Sunday in what rebel sources said appeared to be a US drone strike in the rebel-held northwestern province of Idlib.

Some male Muslim students in Switzerland will no longer need to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that has caused an uproar and consternation in the country.

A Muslim family is requesting a formal apology from United Airlines after being removed from a flight at Chicago O'Hare International Airport last month.

Islamic State (IS) group has killed 15 of its members in the largest execution of the militant group's security services so far in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.

A number of Islamic books in English were delivered by Egypt’s ambassador to New Zealand to head of the Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (FIANZ,) MENA reported Sunday.

Former state TV anchor Tarek Abdel Gaber will return to Egypt on Wednesday, according to his lawyer Tarek Al-Awady.

An Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia says its militants detonated two explosive devices in front of a police station in the city of al-Dalam, setting fire to three police vehicles.

The Islamic State militants group (IS) has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed a policeman in Russia's volatile region of Dagestan.

As a part of his two-day visit to Egypt, German interior minister Thomas de Maizière delivered a speech to students from Al-Azhar University that focused on religious tolerance, according to an official statement from Al-Azhar.

A drone strike near the Islamic State group's (IS) de facto Syrian capital Raqa killed a militant commander heading to Aleppo province on orders from the organisation's chief, a monitoring group said Thursday.

The Administrative Court of Alexandria has blocked the demolition of a church belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, in the process issuing a ruling that prohibits the demolition of any church in Egypt.

Arabic-language guide Razan Nassreddine says Syrian refugees visiting Berlin's Museum of Islamic Art often ask her how and when the artifacts clearly marked as stemming from their war-torn country ended up in the German capital.

The Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs will publish a book in April dealing with the protection of churches in Islam, according to Endowments Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa.

Cairo Criminal Court has handed down harsh jail sentences to 23 denfendants convicted on charges related to the 2013 Maspero clashes, which resulted in at least 10 deaths.

A delegation from Palestinian faction Hamas arrived at Cairo early Wednesday, coming from Doha, to discuss border issues and improvement of relations with the government in Egypt.

A Cairo criminal court sentenced 15 defendants to 25 years in prison in the trial of the so-called "Maspero 2 clashes" that took place in July 2013 following Islamist President Mohamed Morsi's ouster.