Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam released a statement Monday condemning the taking of hostages by an unknown militant in a café in Sydney, Australia.

A group of Islamist scholars criticised Egypt on Monday for seeking an Interpol arrest warrant for their leader, a Qatar-based cleric whose outspoken support for the Muslim Brotherhood contributed to a diplomatic rift between Gulf Arab states.

In homes and streets around Egypt, women are keeping alive a group the authorities are determined to crush. They teach Muslim Brotherhood values to children, organise its protests, preserve its networks, and take an ever more prominent role in politics.

A group of Muslim scholars have criticized Egypt for seeking an Interpol arrest warrant for a Qatar-based cleric who is Egyptian-born and an active supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.

An estimated 600 minors are being held in a detention camp in the town of Banha, North of Cairo, according to the Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence.

Muslim and Christian theologians agreed to promote the concept of brotherhood among Christians, Muslims and adherents of other religions in the face of terrorism carried out in the name of Islam.

The lawyer for ex-president Mohamed Morsi called on Sunday for the testimony of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in the espionage case of his client.

Security forces stormed Beni Suef University for the first time on Sunday, to disperse a protest by pro-Muslim Brotherhood students, leaving two people severely injured

Extremist group of Agnad Masr said it will post within few hours a video by the group leader to disclose its ideological and organizational identity.

A Dar Al-Ifta observatory has claimed that “extremists, terrorists and Takfiri” groups have committed “brutal” acts in the name of Islam, distorting its image and leading young people towards atheism. Dar Al-Ifta is the official state body in Egypt, responsible for issuing religious edicts.

The Misr Al-Qawia Party announced in a statement Saturday its willingness to hold talks with the government and all state institutions, in an attempt to solve “the current political turmoil”.

Twelve "terrorists" were killed in crossfire with armed forces and 70 others were arrested in an eight-day security campaign in North Sinai, the army spokesman said on Thursday.

According to Mina Thabet, founder of the People’s Initiative Party, cases of Coptic abduction and ransoming against huge sums of money are on the rise in the Minya Governorate of Upper Egypt—proving to be a lucrative “business” for “thugs and terrorists” of the Islamic persuasion in an area that is “at an all-time low and ridden with corruption.”

A minister in the government of Mohamed Morsi has been convicted of stealing state television trucks during the Muslim Brotherhood-led Rabaa sit-in in July-August 2013

Britain’s biggest Islamic charity is due to resume its operations in Palestine in defiance of a ban on working in the territory after Israel’s defence ministry described the aid group as a “terrorist organisation”.

Former President Mohamed Morsi’s trial on charges of inciting the killing of demonstrators outside the Presidential Palace was adjourned Wednesday to Dec. 16.

The International Islamic Council for Da'wah and Relief decided in its Tuesday meeting, headed by Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb, to cancel the membership of the Islamic Relief UK, and the International Union of Muslim Scholars, headed by ardent Qatar-based supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Egypt's ultraconservative group Gamaa Islamiya says it is considering withdrawing from the pro-Morsi Islamist bloc, the National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), Ahram Massai (Al-Ahram's evening edition) reported.

Former President Mohamed Morsi said Saturday that he was detained at a military base in Alexandria in July 2013 after his ouster, and demanded a private court hearing with current President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

Leaders of energy-rich Gulf monarchies meet on Tuesday to hammer out a common strategy to fight the threat from Islamic extremism and plunging oil prices.

Egypt's prosecutor general Monday referred to trial 71 students of the prestigious Al-Azhar University on charges of joining the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and holding illegal protests, a judicial official said.