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US Halts Delivery of F-16 Fighter Jets to Egypt
2013-07-25 Read More...
US President Barack Obama has decided to halt the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Egypt for an undetermined period due to the “current situation” on the ground there, the Pentagon said on

Egypt Army Chief Calls for Mass Rallies Against Violence
2013-07-25 Read More...
Egypt's Military Chief called for mass rallies on Friday to give the Army a mandate to confront violence following the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, appearing to up the ante against the Muslim

Egypt’s Interim Leader Vows “Battle for Security”
2013-07-22 Read More...
Egypt’s Interim President Adly Mansour vowed to protect the country from those who “want to drive Egypt to chaos,” in reference to continuous protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammad

Delivery of F-16 Jets to Egypt to Go Ahead as Planned
2013-07-12 Read More...
The United States still plans to go through with the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in the coming weeks, US defense officials told Reuters on Wednesday, even after the Egyptian military's ouster of President Mohamed

Egypt Commander Reassures Saudi King, UAE President
2013-07-08 Read More...
Egypt’s Armed Forces Chief told Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Friday that the situation in Egypt was “stable,” the Saudi state news agency said, as Islamists demonstrated across the country against the military’s overthrow of President Mohammed

Egyptian Army Overthrows Mursi
2013-07-04 Read More...
Egypt's Armed Forces overthrew elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday and announced a political transition with the support of a wide range of political, religious and youth

Egyptian Army Issues All Parties 48-Hour Ultimatum
2013-07-02 Read More...
The Head of Egypt’s Armed Forces issued on Monday a 48-hour ultimatum to all Egyptian political forces to reach a resolution or face a military “road map for the future” that “will not exclude

Egypt: “Any Obstacle to the Nile’s Flow is a National Threat”
2013-06-11 Read More...
Egypt's Foreign Minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile”, said he would go to Addis Ababa to discuss a giant dam that Ethiopia has begun building in defiance of Cairo's

Kerry Quietly Approves $1.3bn Military Aid to Egypt
2013-06-10 Read More...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last month approved $1.3 billion in annual US military aid to Egypt, despite concerns over democratic progress by the country’s new government, a US official said

Egypt Walks out of Global Nuclear Talks in Geneva
2013-05-01 Read More...
Egypt walked out of a round of global nuclear talks in protest Monday, saying other nations are not acting quickly enough to establish the Middle East as a zone free of nuclear

Egyptian President Promotes Top Army Commanders
2013-04-17 Read More...
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi promoted top army leaders on last week and condemned what he called a campaign against the military, after a British newspaper cited a report that accused the army of torture and killing during the 2011

Egyptian Military Against Toppling Army Chief
2013-04-09 Read More...
A tension that has been building up between the Egyptian Army and the Muslim Brotherhood has reached a new level, local media reports

Egypt’s Defense Minister Warns of “State Collapse”
2013-01-30 Read More...
Struggle among political forces in Egypt could lead to the collapse of the country, Head of the Armed Forced warned on Tuesday.

Egypt’s Senate Grants Army Power of Arrests
2013-01-29 Read More...
Egypt's Senate on Monday ratified a law that would grant the Armed Forces powers of arrest, the official MENA news agency

Egyptian Air Force Orders 6 Additional C295 Aircraft
2013-01-17 Read More...
Airbus Military has received an order for six additional C295 transport aircraft from the Egyptian Air Force, bringing the Egyptian Air Force’s C295 fleet to a total of 12

Military Train Crash in Egypt Kills 19 Conscripted Youth
2013-01-15 Read More...
At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 injured late Tuesday when a train carrying military conscripts derailed southwest of Cairo, the Health Ministry

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