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Egypt also opposed US military intervention of March 2003 in Iraq [46] through its membership in the African Union [47] and the Arab League, [48] and continued to oppose US occupation of the country after the war and refused to comply with US requests to send troops to the country, even under a UN umbrella.
William Wing Loring (December 4, 1818 – December 30, 1886) was an American soldier, politician, and lawyer. His military career spanned fifty years and saw him serve in the armies of the United States, the Confederate States, and the Khedivate of Egypt.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Six-Day War was fought between June 5 and June 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, known then as the United Arab Republic (UAR), Jordan, and Syria. The conflict began with a large-scale surprise air strike by Israel on Egypt and ended with a major victory by Israel. A ...
The North African campaign of World War II took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943, fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers.It included campaigns in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts (Western Desert campaign, Desert War), in Morocco and Algeria (Operation Torch), and in Tunisia (Tunisia campaign).
The reasons why the British government sent a fleet of ships to the coast of Alexandria is a point of historical debate. In their 1961 essay Africa and the Victorians, Ronald Robinson and John Gallagher argue that the British invasion was ordered to quell the perceived anarchy of the ‘Urabi Revolt, as well as to protect British control over the Suez Canal in order to maintain its shipping ...
The ʻUrabi revolt, also known as the ʻUrabi Revolution (Arabic: الثورة العرابية), was a nationalist uprising in the Khedivate of Egypt from 1879 to 1882. It was led by and named for Colonel Ahmed Urabi and sought to depose the khedive, Tewfik Pasha, and end Imperial British and French influence over the country.
Egypt delivered its first military aid to Somalia in more than four decades on Tuesday, three diplomatic and Somali government sources said, a move likely to deepen strains between the two ...
The government was rapidly losing control over the situation, as students on the Islamist right and socialist left ignited an inferno of non-violent strikes and violent battles. [69] On January 25, 1952, seven thousand British troops ordered the Egyptian police at Ismalia to surrender their weapons.