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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s new chairman will block a controversial tranche of military aid for Egypt, he announced Saturday. Sen. Ben Cardin’s last-minute decision on the day of ...
The State Department said Friday that Egypt had not met the conditions to receive the $130 million in foreign military financing that has been on hold since September. U.S. halts Egypt military ...
Military assistance to Egypt to the tune of $235 million is in flux after the shakeup of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship, with a decision expected within 24 hours. Sen. Ben ...
The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or the Counter-revolution [9] [10] is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution of 2012. [11]
2011 Egyptian coup d'état: 11 February: Coup Egypt: Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Mohamed Hussein Tantawi: President Hosni Mubarak: Following mass protests and an army’s communiqué, Mubarak resigned.
The politics of Egypt takes place within the framework of a republican semi-presidential system of government. The current political system was established following the 2013 Egyptian military coup d'état, and the takeover of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In the current system, the President is elected for a six-year term.
The Biden administration has allowed much of U.S. foreign military aid to Egypt to go ahead, saying the country was vital for U.S. national security interests despite what critics have said about ...
In fact, the military had always dominated Egypt's politics since the establishment of the first republic in 1952. [7] With the installation of President el-Sisi, who removed Morsi in a military coup, the military's political and economic grip on the state has been fully consolidated in what has been called "a counterrevolutionary regime".