Egypt will light up the Great Pyramids of Giza with the colours of the French and Russian flags on Sunday night at 9:30 pm local time, as decided by the Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities, state-run media MENA reported Saturday.

Nine civilians, including a child, were killed in an early morning shooting in Arish Thursday by North Sinai militants, North Sinai Governor Abdel Fattah Harhour told Egyptian state television.

Egypt’s Social Solidarity Ministry dissolved Thursday 12 non-governmental organizations, claiming they have ties with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

The suspected bombing of a Russian Metrojet airliner over the Sinai Peninsula has sparked concerns about Egypt’s security situation, but IOCs are showing little desire to pull out – despite warnings that the threat from insurgents could worsen.

In a stressful city like Cairo, people tend to search for a calm place in which they can catch their breath from the fast rhythm of life and there is nothing more calming than Al-Azhar Mosque. While there are thousands of other mosques in Cairo, none of them can compete with Al-Azhar, with its importance in Egypt’s history.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II on Monday at the papal residence at the Cathedral of Saint Mark in Cairo’s Abbassiya district.

Imagine the existence of a group involved in covertly formulating a plan on how to subvert the U.S. Constitution, distributing that plan among its leadership and agents within the U.S., quietly supporting terrorism to further this agenda, declaring war against America, and brazenly recognizing U.S. indifference by boasting about its terrorist activities.

Pope Francis called on the Catholic church on Tuesday to stop clinging to conservatism and fundamentalism as a defensive response to the problems it is facing, and said the church ought to be “bruised, hurting and dirty” instead of obsessed with money and power.

During his papal visit to Florence, Pope Francis addressed issues of poverty, exploitation and the image of the Church. He says it has to get ‘bruised, hurting and dirty’ while reaching out to the poor, and less centered around power and money.

Al-Nour Party’s assistant head of legal affairs, Talaat Marzouk, said he will appeal against the Supreme Electoral Commission’s (SEC) decision announcing the “For the love of Egypt” list as the winner of parliamentary elections in West Delta at the court of cassation.

The Religious Endowments Ministry is interrogating one of its imams in Monufiya who had claimed sainthood and printed books promoting the idea.

Unidentified gunmen attacked a police vehicle and were freed a suspect accused of drug trafficking in Egypt’s Delta governorate of Sharqia, Youm7 reported Tuesday.

Air strikes by Gulf Arab members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Syria have diminished since they launched an air war against Yemeni rebels in March, a US general said Tuesday.

Following the decision by the Giza court last week to extend the detention of Israa al-Taweel, Egypt’s Homeland Security agency released to the media on Monday what it referred to as al-Taweel’s "confessions" spanning the gamut from plans to assassinate a top official to spreading false information.

The best way to deal with Europe's growing refugee crisis is to close national borders to stop an "Islamic invasion", Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders says.

The Sinai Peninsula, Egypt (CNN)The Sinai Peninsula is the new front line in the battle against ISIS. But the men defending Sinai aren't soldiers or police. They are Bedouin tribe members, who say they have stopped the terror group without firing a shot.

Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top Islamic State group operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American.

Ministry of Interior forces killed an alleged Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis leader during an attempt to arrest him in Al-Marg neighbourhood in Cairo, according to a ministry statement.

An Egypt court has officially endorsed a decision to place 18 Muslim Brotherhood members on a "terrorist list", in a case mired in legal labyrinths as judges and prosecutors begin applying recent counter-terrorism legislation attempting to define terrorism and terrorist entities.

Muqtada Al-Sadr, one of Iraq’s influential Shi'ite leaders, has invited Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the top religious academy in the Sunni Islamic World, to make Jews their common enemy and to set doctrinal differences aside.

A top Cairo-based leader of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis was killed in an exchange of fire with the police in el-Marg area, northeast of Cairo, according to a Monday police statement.