Egypt’s public prosecutor issued a decision Oct. 17 to imprison three people on charges of premeditated murder and robbery over the killing of young woman in Cairo.

Residents of Egypt’s restive North Sinai are torn between the anguish of displacement and the threat of death posed by explosives left by Islamic State group (IS) militants who previously occupied their villages.

House of Representatives hopeful Ashraf Aboul Fadl has survived after a being shot at by a group of unidentified assailants in Egypt’s Qena Governorate, according to a report from El Youm news outlet.

Almost 70 days after being displaced when Province of Sinai militants seized control of their villages, and weathering subsequent unfilled promises from the Armed Forces that they’d be able to return swiftly, the residents of four villages in the Bir al-Abd region of North Sinai made their way home last …

Egyptian police have arrested at least one of the three alleged perpetrators involved in the killing of a young woman in a Cairo suburb on Tuesday night in an incident that sparked anger across the Middle Eastern country.

Egyptian authorities continue to crack down on terrorist elements in the Sinai Peninsula, but more recently these operations seem to have moved out of Sinai and closer to the capital city of Cairo.

A BBC investigation has shed light on Egypt’s organ trafficking trade. One organ trafficker they spoke to said his gang arranges between 20 to 30 illegal transplants a week.

At the close of August, unofficial reports began to spread that the Armed Forces had “liberated” one of the four villages southwest of the North Sinai city of Bir al-Abd and would allow displaced residents to return after the Province of Sinai took control of the towns in late July.

The Egyptian armed forces announced Aug. 30 that seven officers and soldiers were killed and wounded in confrontations and raids launched by the army on terrorist hiding places in Sinai between that day and July 22.

A row has been triggered this week in Egypt after a senior tax authority official said that the government imposes an income tax on drug trafficking, arms trade and prostitution if law violators have been arrested.