Cairo criminal court sentenced on Wednesday former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's chief of staff Rifaa El-Tahtawy to three years in prison on charges of forgery.

Islamic State fighters have largely withdrawn from a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus after expelling their main rival, several residents and a Palestinian official said on Wednesday.

Hundreds of citizens have organised a protest in Egypt's Nile Delta city Kafr El-Sheikh in reaction to the attack that took place earlier today leaving at least two students from the military academy dead and others injured, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Two military students were killed when a microbus transforming military academy students exploded in the governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh on Wednesday, the governorate's security director said.

At least three civilians were killed and nine United Nations peacekeepers seriously injured in a suicide attack on a U.N. base in the northern Malian town ofAnsongo on Wednesday, a spokesman for the peacekeeping mission said.

An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said on Friday.

Masked gunmen in central Libya kidnapped 13 Coptic Christians on Saturday after seven were abducted days earlier, said a witness and a priest, in a new wave of assaults against Egypt’s Christians working in the war-torn North African nation plagued with Islamic extremists.

Deposed President Mohamed Morsy, who faces espionage charges along with 34 other Muslim Brotherhood members, offered felicitations to Cairo Criminal Court and Egyptians over Al-Mawlid Al-Nabawy, Prophet Mohamed’s birth, and Christmas.

A judicial source has revealed names of members belonging to the Muslim-Brotherhood led National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL) whose properties and assets were ordered to be seized by judicial authorities on Saturday.

In a major positive development, Egypt's President Al Sisi has made an impassioned plea for a "religious revolution" in Islam. Speaking at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Sisi spoke directly to the religious establishment of Egypt: