Saying Jesus would never ask them to be “hit men”, Pope Francis begged young people in Mexico’s gang-infested heartland on Tuesday to shun the lure of easy money and big cars offered by drug traffickers.

Cairo Criminal Court has postponed the trial of 23 suspects, including 17 detainees, in a case known as the "Maspero incident" that took place in July 2013 to February 20 to hear the defense's case.

A police conscript was killed and two others were injured after an attack at their checkpoint near the Giza Security Directorate, Youm7 reported a security source Tuesday.

A suicide bomber killed at least 10 recruits at a Yemeni army camp run by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s government in the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday, medical sources and an official said.

The Virgin Mary Church in Samalout held Tuesday a memorial service for the 20 Copts who were murdered last year in Libya at the hands of the Islamic State group in Libya.

Hundreds attended on Tuesday a mass in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate in commemoration of the 20 Copts who were slain in Libya by the Islamic State militant group one year ago.

A human rights group has urged the House of Representatives to intervene to speed up efforts to locate eight Egyptians believed to be kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Libya between July and September 2014.

A Swiss woman who has visited Egypt more than 40 times in the past two decades, has collected 7,000 Swiss Francs ($7,090) as a charitable donation from her friends and neighbors in Switzerland for the families of the 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians who were murdered last year by the Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya.

Hundreds of El-Aour village in Upper Egypt’s Minya governorate attended a memorial mass held Tuesday at the Virgin Mary Church in Samalout to mark the first anniversary of the 21 Egyptian nationals beheaded by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya, reported Youm7.

Cairo University’s president banned on Sunday all women involved in treating patients at university hospitals from wearing the niqab, a full-face veil.

Cairo University President Gaber Nassar decided on Sunday to ban nurses and doctors from wearing the Niqab, the full-face veil, in Qasr Al-Aini Medical School (QAMS) and its affiliated teaching hospitals.

Islamic State militants attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat said, based on tests by the global chemical weapons watchdog.

Forty students have been expelled from the Police Academy for having “political inclinations and belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood,” head of the college Amr al-Assar told Youm7 Monday.

A retired security officer in southern Saudi Arabia has been shot dead in an attack claimed Monday by IS group.

Two Egyptian army personnel were killed and another injured when a bomb detonated in North Sinai on Saturday morning, the military said.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has introduced amendments to its bylaws that effectively disconnects it from the organization’s leadership in Cairo.

Al-Azhar’s Dar al-Iftaa has condemned a decision by the Technical University of Dortmund to close a chamber used by Muslim students for performing prayer rituals.

Mansoura Criminal Court has given life sentences to 30 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Daqahliya after they were convicted on a range of charges, including murder.

The United States and its allies conducted 27 strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement.

Military Spokesperson Mohamed Samir announced Thursday that second field army troops were able to find out and destroy a concrete tunnel with depth that extended for nine meters at al-Dahliya area in Rafah border city.

Egyptian military forces destroyed another tunnel connecting northern Sinai and the Gaza Strip, a military spokesman said on Thursday, after an Israeli minister said Egyptian-Israeli security coordination is "better than ever."