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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in New York City on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Netanyahu to make first official visit to Egypt in more than a decade

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to head to Egypt for a state visit in the coming days, at the request of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, officials in Cairo have confirmed to Israel Hayom. The...
A satellite image of the Middle East that was captioned by NASA astronaut Chris Hadfield: “The Nile and the Sinai, to Israel and beyond. One sweeping glance of human history.” Credit: Julian Herzog/NASA via Wikimedia Commons.

Transformations in the Middle East: Challenges and opportunities

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When the dust settles on the Trump presidency, historians will try to assess Donald Trump’s reshuffling of the Obama legacy toward the Middle East. Indeed, the Middle East of 2020 is far different from...
Then-Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, receives a brief about the Multinational Force and Observers defenses during a visit to the North Camp in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, Feb. 21, 2016. Photo: D. Myles Cullen/U.S. Department of Defense.

Bipartisan congressional letter warns against pulling US troops out of Sinai

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A bipartisan group of members of Congress sent a letter last week to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, stating that withdrawing U.S. troops from the Multinational Force and Observers...
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi prior to their bilateral meeting on May 21, 2017, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

US threatens Egypt with sanctions over possible Russian arms deal

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The United States has threatened Egypt with sanctions were the latter to acquire Russian warplanes. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Egyptian Defense Minister Mohamed Zaki in...