Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta, the government-sponsored religious body responsible for issuing fatwas, launched Tuesday an international campaign to introduce the “mercy” of Prophet Mohamed’s character to “correct a distorted view of Islam,” according to a Friday statement by the Islamic institute.

Egyptian Coptic leader Pope Tawadros II said Egypt awaits the real Arab Spring, to bring prosperity, growth and happiness.

Egypt's largest coalition supporting ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi has called on its supporters to rally on the fourth anniversary of the January 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Salah Abdel-Maboud, a leading member of the Salafist Nour Party, has revealed the party has no funds to support its candidates in the upcoming parliamentary election.

“God’s agents" — that was the term that famed 13th-century Islamic Jurist Ibn al-Qaayyim al-Jawziya gave to reflect how critical and sensitive it is to be a mufti, an Islamic scholar approached for religious opinions pertaining to all matters of Muslims’ lives

The bodies of an Egyptian family slain in Libya last week landed at the Cairo International Airport early Tuesday, having arrived from Libya through Turkey.

Minister of Justice Mahfouz Saber announced on Tuesday that a counter terrorism bill will be issued soon.

A Libyan lawmaker says a suicide car bomber has rammed his vehicle into the outer gate of the headquarters of the internationally recognized parliament.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a funeral tent north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad that killed 16 people and wounded 34 others.

The private bodyguard of the Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was arrested on Monday, reported Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website.

An Islamic mission center (Da’wah) of the Ministry of Religious Endowment will be established in Kerdasa, a blue-collar town in Giza and a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, to “control violence” in the area, Youm7 reported Sunday

Al-Azhar University, Egypt's largest Islamic educational institute, expelled on Sunday 51 students for involvement in pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests.

Two defendants affiliated with the banned-Muslim Brotherhood group were referred to be tried before a military court after they were accused of blocking a railway in an August march in Minya in Upper Egypt, MENA reported Monday.

Muslim Brotherhood leading figure Mohamed El-Beltagy was sentenced to six years in jail for contempt of court Saturday during a session of the prison break trial that also involves Egypt's former president Mohamed Mursi.

Al-Azhar University, Egypt's largest Islamic educational institute, expelled on Sunday 51 students for involvement in pro-Muslim Brotherhood protests.

Security forces defused a bomb Sunday on Gamaa bridge in Egypt's Giza governorate. No injuries or deaths were reported, sources told Ahram Online.

Egyptian prosecutors referred Friday journalist and writer Fatima Naoot to a misdemeanors court on charges of disdaining religion, after she was critical of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha tradition of slaughtering sheep.

The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organisation said on Sunday.

Two women's rights campaigners detained in Saudi Arabia have been transferred to a special tribunal for "terrorism", activists said on Thursday after the women appeared in court.

Seven Muslim Brotherhood "supporters" were referred to the prosecution on Thursday in Upper Egypt's Minya governorate, on charges of planning "terrorist" operations during Christmas and New Year celebrations.

Catholic Copts in Egypt are marking Christmas amid tight security after threats from Islamist extremist groups.