The Ministry of Interior announced that the suspect accused of killing a priest in Alexandria on Friday has been arrested.

A Palestinian member of the Islamic State affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula has been killed, according to an Islamic State announcement that circulated on Friday.

Four fighters from tribes in North Sinai that are allied with the government were killed in the Thursday afternoon explosion of an improvised explosive device, according to statements from tribal groups.

The Islamic State affiliate in Egypt, the Province of Sinai, pledged allegiance on Wednesday to the group’s new leader via its Amaq publishing outlet.

The House of Representatives agreed in principle to amend the law on combating illegal immigration issued in 2016, in all its articles.

Senior officials and businesspeople from Egypt to Saudi Arabia and the Emirates were involved in financial deals that funded the illicit excavation and smuggling of over 200 archeological artifacts, according to court documents from a trial that began this year obtained by Mada Masr.

The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday the killing of seven top dangerous criminals in an exchange of fire with police forces in the Governorate, Monufiya Nile Delta.

In recent months residents who have long been displaced from their homes to the west and south of Sheikh Zuwayed, once a concentration point in the military-militant conflict, have been allowed to return to inspect their wartorn properties.

Local security analysts warn against a possible resurgence by the Islamic State (IS) in the Sinai Peninsula, in the wake of a string of attacks on army troops, Bedouins and tribal figures in the northeastern Egyptian territory.

Five soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an explosion in Gelbana village on the westernmost outskirts of North Sinai, a security source told Mada Masr on condition of anonymity.