RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH MYSTERY DEEPENS AS OFFICIALS DIFFER

Metrojet officials also dismissed claims by the Islamic State that its operatives felled the plane... READ MORE›

EGYPT BOMBS IS IN LIBYA AFTER BEHEADINGS VIDEO

Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians, with most working in the construction sector... READ MORE›

Fighters under the banner of the Tripolitania Province of the Islamic State announced last month that they were holding about 20 Egyptian Christians, or Copts... READ MORE›

EGYPT HITS 'JIHADIST CAMPS' AFTER ATTACK ON COPTIC CHRISTIANS

America stands with President Sisi and all the Egyptian people today, and always, as we fight to defeat this common enemy, he added... READ MORE›

CHIEF OF ISLAMIC STATE IN LIBYA THOUGHT TO BE KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE

Before going to Libya, Zubaidi was a senior Islamic State operative in Iraq... READ MORE›

EGYPT SEEKS UN MANDATE FOR LIBYA ISLAMIC STATE INTERVENTION

Libya is home to a large community of both Muslim and Coptic Egyptians, with most working in the construction sector... READ MORE›

IS SETTING UP LIBYA CAMPS, US SAYS

Libya after Gaddafi Islamic State militants have set up training camps in eastern Libya, the head of the US Africa command says... READ MORE›

IS BOMB ATTACK 'KILLS 40' IN LIBYA

Libya violence islamic state attack kills 40 in al-qubbah... READ MORE›

ISIS LEADER IN LIBYA PRESUMED KILLED BY U.S. AIRSTRIKE

The official said the operation began before the Paris attacks and was not related to that event... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE THREATENS TO TOPPLE HAMAS IN GAZA STRIP IN VIDEO STATEMENT

Video issued from Isis stronghold in Syria is rare public challenge to Hamas, which has been cracking down on jihadis who oppose its truces with Israel... READ MORE›

EGYPTIAN AIR STRIKES IN LIBYA KILL DOZENS OF ISIS MILITANTS

Egyptian air strikes killed 64 Isis fighters, including three of the leadership, in the coastal cities of Derna and Sirte, the Libyan army said... READ MORE›

EGYPT LAUNCHES AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISIL IN LIBYA

Libya's air force commander, Saqr al-Joroushi, told Egyptian state TV that about 50 militants were killed... READ MORE›

EGYPT HITS LIBYAN TERROR CAMPS AGAIN AFTER ATTACK KILLS 29 COPTS

Libyan sources say Egypt has indicated more attacks, possibly including groundstrikes, are being considered by Cairo... READ MORE›

ISIS ALLY IN EGYPT EMERGES AS KEY SUSPECT IN RUSSIAN JET CRASH

And the Sinai Province released online an Islamic State-like video of its militants beheading a kidnapped Croatian employee of a French energy company... READ MORE›

EGYPTAIR MECHANIC SUSPECTED IN RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH

The official said state security traced the family connections of all the employees and they were cleared... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR RUSSIAN PLANE CRASH IN EGYPT

Egyptian security sources earlier on Saturday said early investigations suggested the plane crashed due to a technical fault... READ MORE›

CHRISTIANS UNDER PRESSURE: FROM BIGOTRY AT SCHOOL TO IMPRISONMENT AND MURDER

Fayek, an affable young man, believes his social status shielded him from the worst forms of persecution inflicted on poorer Egyptian Christians... READ MORE›

IN LIBYA, THE ISLAMIC STATES BLACK BANNER RISES BY THE MEDITERRANEAN

Libyans say that a wide range of foreign fighters, including Tunisians, Yemenis, Sudanese and Egyptians, have arrived in Sirte... READ MORE›

PROSPECT THAT BOMB DESTROYED PLANE RAISES SPECTER OF EXPANDING ISIS THREAT

On Saturday, the Islamic State's affiliate in Sinai, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for downing the jet... READ MORE›

GADHAFI'S SON SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2011 KILLINGS

The court, in the capital of Tripoli, sentenced eight other people to death, including former Libyan spy chief Abdullah al-Senoussi and two former prime ministers, al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi and Abuzaid Dorda... READ MORE›

US SAYS DRONE KILLED AN ISIS OPERATIVE

Last month, the State Department announced multimillion-dollar rewards for information leading to the whereabouts of four Islamic State leaders, including Mr... READ MORE›

EGYPT'S SISI SAYS BRITAIN, OTHER NATO MEMBERS MUST DO MORE IN LIBYA

In a separate interview with the BBC, Sisi defended his domestic human rights record, using the example of countries like Libya... READ MORE›

PHOTO RELEASED BY ISLAMIC STATE PURPORTS TO SHOW BOMB THAT DOWNED RUSSIAN JET

The Islamic State took responsibility soon after the crash, but the claim was widely disregarded... READ MORE›

NEW U.S. INTELLIGENCE REPORT SAYS ISLAMIC STATE WEAKER

So too has a U.S.-led air campaign that has launched more than 10,000 strikes against the Islamist extremists, Earnest said... READ MORE›

MEMBER OF ISIS EXECUTION GROUP IS SAID TO BE IDENTIFIED

He was part of the group nicknamed the Beatles, led by the Islamic State's most infamous executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John... READ MORE›

FREE 'MUSLIM WOMEN' OR CROAT CAPTIVE DIES, ISLAMIC STATE IN EGYPT THREATENS IN VIDEO

The video identifies itself as coming from the media arm of the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt's lawless Sinai Peninsula... READ MORE›

FIGHTING ON THE FRONTLINE FIVE YEARS ON FROM REVOLUTION

A coalition led by the Libyan army is fighting on two fronts, against the forces of so-called Islamic State and Islamist militias... READ MORE›

DYING IN A SUITCASE AND OTHER HORRIBLE WAYS THAT MIGRANT JOURNEYS TO EUROPE END

At least five West African migrants died in May while being rescued from a dinghy off the shore of Libya... READ MORE›

ASSESSING THE TOP SIX CHAMPIONSHIP CLUBS CAN THEY MAKE IT TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE?

A Libya oil corporation official, Mohammed al-Harari, said late Saturday that 850,000 barrels of oil had been lost because of the fire in five storage tanks... READ MORE›

EGYPT'S PRESIDENT AL-SISI CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION AGAINST ISIS IN LIBYA

Please read our Egypt has called on the US and Europe to join an international military intervention following airstrikes against Isis targets in Libya... READ MORE›