Egypt would be ready to lend a hand in securing a future Palestinian state by sending in troops that could help out local police and offer Israel security guarantees, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in a newspaper interview.
Egypt's interior ministry said on Wednesday it had arrested an Egyptian militant who had returned from fighting in Syria with a group linked to the al Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front in order to train Egyptians in bombmaking.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government defended its human rights record against Western and regional critics at a United Nations hearing on Wednesday, declaring that personal freedoms were among its prime concerns.
Tunisia's Ennahda party, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the 2011 "Arab Spring" revolts, conceded defeat on Monday in elections that are set to make its main secular rival the strongest force in parliament.
An Egyptian court sentenced 68 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Tuesday, judicial sources said, in a case related to deadly violence a year ago after the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Egypt has accused Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan of supporting terrorists and seeking to provoke mayhem in the Middle East after he questioned the legitimacy of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a speech at the UN General Assembly.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with Egyptian Defense Minister Colonel General Sedki Sobhy on Saturday to confirm the United States plans to deliver 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt to support Cairo's counter-terrorism efforts, the Pentagon said.
A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by their male relatives in southern Egypt who believed that they had affairs, in the latest apparent example of the so-called "honor killings" in which women are slain for violating traditional morals, a security official said on Friday.
A Cairo court has turned down a lawsuit filed by an Islamist lawyer, which demanded Bassem Youssef's television show be banned for allegedly insulting the president and containing sexual innuendo on his program. Judge Hassouna Wawfiq said the lawsuit was dropped since the plaintiff did not have an interest in the case. Youssef is not completely off the hook just yet, as he still faces other investigations related to the show. This ruling, however, may set a precedent.
On Saturday, a Cairo court ordered the government to block access to YouTube for 30 days. The court - and much of the Arab world- remain irate with Google-owned YouTube for carrying the satirical anti-Muhammad film "Innocence of Muslims" last year.
