The parents of a 26-year-old American who has been held hostage for more than a year by Islamic State extremists were clinging to hope Sunday that their daughter is alive, having yet to receive information confirming otherwise.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a North Sinai resident they had earlier kidnapped under the pretext that he was "cooperating with security apparatuses," security and tribal sources said.

A total of 29 have been arrested for creating an alleged terrorist cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls itself “Deterrence,” Youm7 reported Monday.

Two policemen, Abdel Hamid Ahmed and Sherif Abdel Latif, were injured by gunfire from unknown assailants in Kafr al-Sheikh on Monday. They were taken to hospital in serious condition.

A total of 29 have been arrested for creating an alleged terrorist cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which calls itself “Deterrence,” Youm7 reported Monday.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shokry handed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday a CD during the Munich Security Conference that includes seven videos on the “terrorism” faced by Egypt, as well as a PDF of Al-Azhar’s publication “The Ideological Battlefield – Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa Combats Terrorism,” Youm7 reported.

Cairo criminal court has reached a final verdict of the death penalty for three and punished a fourth defendant with ten years in jail on charges of spying for Al-Qaeda between 2008 and 2013.

The Nour Party would appear on the same electoral list as former members of the National Democratic Party (NDP), as long as they are not implicated in corruption, its leader has said.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb announced Sunday Azhar would form a center for religious dialogue under his person supervision.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab accused the Muslim Brotherhood of attempting to affect the perception of Egypt by “fabricating” undated audio allegedly leaked from President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi when he was the Minister of Defense.

In a statement read by a masked gunman, 10 armed Palestinian factions jointly condemned on Thursday an Egyptian decision to list the military wing of the Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organisation.

A member of Egypt's security forces was killed and another injured in a drive-by shooting in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

An Egyptian court upheld Thursday a death sentence passed on a supporter of former president Mohamed Morsi accused of throwing teenage boys from a rooftop in Alexandria, a judicial source told Ahram Online.

Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen announced on Thursday that one of its top clerics was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month in the country’s south.

Boko Haram fighters have killed more than 100 people in the north Cameroon town of Fotokol, murdering residents inside their homes and a mosque, a local civic leader said on Wednesday.

Muslim clerics widely condemned the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot by Islamic State, saying such a form of killing was considered despicable by Islam, no matter the context.

The Orthodox Church has now expressed its desire to keep its distance from politics during the upcoming parliamentary elections.

A police officer who shot dead a hospitalized bombing suspect linked to the Muslim Brotherhood has said that he was charged by Egypt’s president speech that followed the murder of at least 27 army officers in Sinai last Thursday.

The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt's pre-eminent Sunni Islamic institute, has strongly condemned the killing of a Jordanian pilot by the "terrorist, devilish" Islamic State (IS).

During his Tuesday meeting with ambassadors from EU member states in Cairo, Egyptian Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs Hatem Seif El-Nasr urged them to "shut down channels that support the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organisation and are broadcasting through European satellites."

The trial against former president Mohamed Morsi and 10 other defendants, in which they are accused of espionage with Qatar, will hold its first session on 15 February, the Cairo Court of Appeals decided on Monday.