In the latest flurry of meetings in the evolving relationship between Egypt and Libya talks have covered a wide-range of political, security and economic issues.
On 14 September, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with Speaker of the Libyan House of (...)
"Today, I lost a father, a teacher, a human being who was proud and protective of his country. I have learned much from the example of dedication to the nation he set. Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi rose to some of the most difficult (...)
The General Command of the Egyptian Armed Forces mourned in a statement on Tuesday the death of former Defence Minister Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy, who passed away earlier today at the age of 85.
"The General Command of the Egyptian Armed (...)
Cairo has recently witnessed an intensive and qualitative movement on the Libyan file as the political transition process in Libya enters into the decisive phase.
According to the timetable of the roadmap of the transition process, around three (...)
The multinational two-week long military exercise Bright Star 2021 hosted by Egypt was wrapped up on Friday, according to a video statement by Egypt's Armed Forces Spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez.
The drill kicked off on 2 September at Egypt's Mohamed (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi received Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday. The meeting, arranged last month during head of Egyptian General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel's visit to Jerusalem, is part of Egypt's (...)
Egyptian commentators say there has been no significant breakthrough in the resumption of Egyptian-Turkish relations. Two exploratory rounds of negotiations have been held in the last four months, one in Cairo in May, the second in Ankara in the (...)
The Bright Star 2021 joint military exercise, hosted by Egypt, kicked off at the Mohamed Naguib military base in the Northern Military Zone on 2 September. Twenty-one countries are taking part in the two-week drills which conclude on 17 September. (...)
Two military cargo aircrafts carrying humanitarian aid were dispatched from Egypt to Sudan on Sunday, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced.
According to the Egyptian army's statement, the supplies on the two planes included tents and blankets (...)
Eight years into the war local Yemeni reports indicate that Hans Grundberg, who had replaced Martin Griffiths as UN special envoy earlier this month, has familiarised himself with and reached out to all political factions and social components (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi flew to Baghdad on 28 August to take part in the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership. It was the highest level of Egyptian representation in Iraq for almost three decades.
The one-day conference offered (...)
Egyptian and French air forces have conducted a joint military exercise with the participation of Mirage 2000, Rafale, and Egyptian F-16s multirole fighter jets.
During the drill, the Egyptian and French forces carried out an air-to-air refueling (...)
Egypt's Defence Minister Mohamed Zaki left for Moscow on Sunday, leading a high-level military delegation, to attend the seventh meeting of the Egyptian-Russian military committee.
Zaki's several days' visit comes within the framework of enhancing (...)
The Egyptian and US naval forces carried out a joint naval drill in the Southern Fleet Red Sea operations zone, Egypt's military spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez said in a statement on Tuesday.
Egyptian frigate Taba and the guided-missile cruiser USS (...)
The Egyptian Armed Forces announced late on Thursday the killing of 13 terrorists from takfiri groups in an exchange of fire during counter-terrorism operations in central and northern Sinai.
Takfiri is a term used to refer to certain hardline Sunni (...)
The General Command of the Armed Forces sent two Chinook helicopters to Greece to take part in efforts of extinguishing fire in Greek forests, which enters its fifth day in a row.
The two helicopters are equipped with all equipment and advanced (...)
In the framework of the ongoing nationwide counter-terrorism drive, the Egyptian Armed Forces have delivered a succession of blows to terrorist operatives and infrastructure over recent days.
According to a statement from the General Command of the (...)
The recent spike in tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah have led some political analysts to notch up their forecasts of a war between the two to "impending".
They base their predictions on the broader area of friction (...)
Egyptian naval forces managed to rescue ten foreign visitors on Wednesday, whose yacht ran aground and was stranded on a coral reef in the Straits of Tiran in the Aqaba Gulf.
The visitors on board the Swiss yacht included French, Swiss, Spanish, (...)
An Egyptian military plane carrying tons of vital medical equipment and drugs left Cairo on Thursday heading for Tunisia to help the Arab country overcome its current severe health crisis, the Egyptian Armed Forces announced.
This is the fourth (...)
Three Egyptian military planes, loaded with tons of medicines, medical supplies and equipment, took off from Cairo and arrived in Tunis on Wednesday to help Tunisia face its current coronavirus crisis.
The medical aid was sent upon the directives of (...)
Egypt's Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki signed on Tuesday a military cooperation protocol with Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Nebojša Stefanović in Cairo, the Egyptian Armed Forces said.
According to the Egyptian army (...)
Egypt's Minister of Defence and Military Production Mohamed Zaki said on Thursday that the Armed Forces are capable of deterring anyone who would undermine the security of Egypt.
In a meeting with army officers who were recently appointed to senior (...)
Last Saturday, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi inaugurated the 3 July naval base in Gargoub equidistant from the border with Libya and the Mohamed Naguib military base, opened in July 2018 west of Alexandria. The 3 July naval base, now the largest (...)
The Egyptian Armed Forces sent on Monday two helicopters loaded with advanced equipment to take part in putting out a huge forest fire that swept through the southern Limassol district of Cyprus.
The fire has destroyed houses and forced the (...)