Egypt's top prosecutor referred 439 individuals to a military tribunal for the killing of three police officers last year. Rights groups protest the use of the tribunals for civilians.
An Egyptian court sentenced 188 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for an August 2013 attack on a police station in Giza governate, widely known as the "Kerdasa massacre."
A Egyptian court dropped charges against former president Hosni Mubarak in his retrial for the deaths of more than 100 protesters during the 2011 uprising that toppled his regime.
Two men in Egypt were acquitted on charges relating to female genital mutilation, in the only case brought to trial since the law banning FGM was toughened in 2008.
Protesters in military-ruled Thailand have been silently reading 1984 in public to outwit a ban on gatherings—leading to the book itself being banned. Egypt could be next.
The Egyptian army is destroying hundreds of Bedouin homes along the Gaza border to create a "security zone," while the Israeli army razed more Bedouin homes on the West Bank.
An Egyptian court convicted and sentenced eight men to three years in prison following their participation in an alleged same-sex wedding party.
An Egyptian court sentenced 23 activists to three years in prison for protesting without a permit, an act that violates a controversial law enacted last year.
Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed at least 30 troops, one day after militants fired an anti-tank missile at a military vehicle across the Israeli line.
Amid fierece fighting in Benghazi, AP cites unnamed "officials" as saying Egyptian warplanes have bombed Islamist positions in the eastern Libyan city.
Rights lawyer and former presidential candidate Khaled Ali joined a hunger strike by dozens of Egyptians to demand the release of activists detained under the new anti-protest law.
Unidentified warplanes carried out air-strikes on targets controlled by Islamist militias in Tripoli. Libya said the planes were foreign, but the US, Italy and France denied involvement.
