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After the Egyptian defeat in the Anglo-Egyptian war, the UK abolished the entire military of Egypt and established a small homeland defence force instead even the Navy was abolished and the only maritime force in Egypt was the Coast Guard. In 1908 the Naval Authority was formed as a semi replacement for the former Navy, and was used to control ...
The 3rd of July Naval Base is named in reference to the aftermath of the 30 June protests.On this date, a major political shift occurred in Egypt, when then-President Mohamed Morsi, a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's first democratically elected president, was removed from power following widespread protests.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo / ˈ ɡ ɪ t m oʊ / GIT-moh as jargon by members of the U.S. military [1]) is a United States military base occupying a location on 45 square miles (117 km 2) of land and water [2] on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the ...
Hours earlier, the U.S. Southern Command said the fast-attack submarine Helena had arrived on a routine port visit to Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. naval base on the southeast tip of the island around ...
Alleged to have made recruiting videos for al Qaeda; One of the first four detainees to face charges before military commission [32] Al Bahlul's name does not appear on the May 15, 2006 DoD list of Guantanamo detainees; Al Bahooth, Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad [17] Saudi Arabia: Al Baidhani, Abdulkhaliq [17] Yemen: al Banna, Jamil: Jordan, UK ...
A U.S. fast-attack nuclear-powered submarine arrived at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba, on Thursday, a day after a Russian navy fleet that also included a modern submarine pulled into the port of Havana ...
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Kingston, Jamaica: GK: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Key West, Florida: GM Galveston, Texas to Mississippi River: GN: Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to New York City GP Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to Panama Canal: GS Greenland to Sydney, Nova Scotia, or St. John's, Newfoundland: USN escorted convoys GZ: Guantanamo Bay Naval ...