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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

Egyptian Army to Have a Say in any War Declaration
2012-12-03 Read More...
Egypt's President will need to seek the opinion of the National Defense Council in addition to getting the approval of parliament to declare war, according to an article approved on Thursday by an assembly drafting the new

Egyptian President Calls for Dialogue with Political Forces
2012-11-26 Read More...
Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi reiterated on Sunday the “temporary nature” of his decrees, saying he wanted dialogue with political

Egyptian Military Academy Not Favoring Islamist Students
2012-11-23 Read More...
The Egyptian Military Academy accepting a large number of Islamist students sounded the alarm that there was favoritism and that the Muslim Brotherhood was changing the enrollment

31 Complaints Filed Against Egypt’s Ex Army Chief & His Deputy
2012-09-11 Read More...
Thirty complaints have been filed against Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, former Head of Egypt’s Army, and his Deputy General Sami Anan, for suppressing last year’s popular uprising, a judicial source said

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