Guerrilla group "White Shroud" is hunting down Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant fighters in eastern Syria.
The Arab League has rejected US proposals that would allow Israeli soldiers to be stationed on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state.
Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as Thursday after a court ruling that has jolted a divided nation already in turmoil.
Families have tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces.
Egypt’s interim leaders are still debating how to end protests by supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, says a report.
The Muslim Brotherhood has rejected pleas from international envoys to "swallow the reality" that Mohamed Morsi will not return as Egypt’s president.
Egyptian security forces have shot dead at least 70 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, says his Muslim Brotherhood.
Egypt’s youths have fought police in Cairo and Alexandria on the second anniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
In trying to placate both conservative Islamists and Egypt’s secularists, the Muslim Brotherhood has favoured compromise. But how long can that last?
Authorities have disqualified presidential front-runners including Hosni Mubarak’s spy chief and a Muslim Brotherhood candidate from the election.