Egypt’s highest civilian court on Thursday issued a final ruling upholding a death sentence for 21 suspected Islamist militants, a judicial source and the state news agency MENA said.

A gang of ten members facilitating and conducting human organ trafficking, including three doctors and an employee of a kidney institute, and six others, specializing in illegal kidney transplants were arrested, the Interior Ministry announced.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi agreed with French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly on Thursday on intensifying consultations and coordination during the coming period to counter terrorism.

The Cairo criminal court, fifth circuit for terrorism sentenced Bahaa Kish, the guard of the terrorist Hisham El-Ashmawy, who was deported with him from Libya to death by hanging.

Sudanese security forces, led by the country’s intelligence services, have been cracking down on Islamic State (IS) members over the past weeks.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that all countries that sponsor, support and shelter terrorists must be held accountable.

A high-profile Islamic State commander in Sinai has given himself up to a tribal union loyal to the Egyptian military, exposing possible cracks within the organization and potentially putting valuable information at the disposal of Cairo.

The mufti (jurist) of the Islamic State terrorist group in Sinai has turned himself in to the Egyptian Military Intelligence in North Sinai, tribal sources told Daily News Egypt on Saturday.

The Egyptian security authorities on Sunday arrested a migration broker believed to have facilitated irregular migration by sea, which, according to preliminary reports, resulted in the drowning of 11 people, Anadolu Agency reported.

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior announced on Monday the killing of two criminals in an exchange of fire with police officers in Assiut, Upper Egypt.