Adel Abdel Bary was convicted in New York of his role in the 1998 African embassy bombings. His extradition had been challenged before the European Court of Human Rights.
Amnesty International charged that the Egyptian government is covering up the deaths of more than two dozen people in protests on the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.
A Cairo appeals court banned the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, armed wing of Hamas, and declared it a terrorist group with links to the Sinai insurgency.
Security forces in Egypt arrested 516 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood in protests marking the fourth anniversary of the country's 2011 revolution.
Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld convictions and three-year prison sentences of three activists for violating the country's controversial new anti-protest law.
Protests around the commemoration of Egypt's 2011 revolution may be dominated by Islamist Morsi supporters, but an early demonstration called by a socialist party saw one killed.
Egypt's Court of Cassation ordered a retrial for four police officers accussed in the deaths of 37 detained protesters in a van outside a Cairo prison after the 2013 coup.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
An Egyptian court in Baheira governorate sentenced student Karim Ashraf Mohamed al-Banna to three years in prison for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist.
At thier meeting in Paris to condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo, European Union government ministers issued a statement calling for further restrictions on the Internet.
A sweeping "anti-terrorism" decree and expanded crackdown on opposition come as Egypt's President al-Sisi is making overtures to the Copts and invoking pluralism.
Warplanes under the command of renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar fired missiles at Misrata's rebel-held airport, as Libya's oil exports remain effectively paralyzed by civil war.
