Military

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  • Army not to allow targeting Egypt's security, unity of its people

    Date: 2018-01-02 15:16:45 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:69 - ID:7171125

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Minister of Defense and Military Production Sedki Sobhi has said the Armed Forces will not allow anybody to target Egypt's security and stability and the unity of its people. While attending the tactical project "Magd 27" with ....

  • Army says found 63 tunnels, foiled 239 illegal immigration bids in 2017

    Date: 2018-01-01 20:03:03 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:58 - ID:7169814

    CAIRO, Jan 1 (MENA) - The Egyptian border guard has discovered 63 tunnels in total in North Sinai in 2017, said the army's spokesman Tamer El Refaie said in a statement on Monday. As many 239 illegal immigrant attempts were thwarted, with 1,921 ....

  • Army officer, 5 soldiers killed in blast in North Sinai

    Date: 2017-12-28 19:56:10 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:77 - ID:7164177

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) – An army officer and five soldiers were killed on Thursday when an explosive device hit their vehicle during a raid on a terrorist hotbed in North Sinai, the military spokesman said. Also, in North Sinai, the second field ....

  • Defense Ministry Committee to settle recruitment problems of Halayeb, Shalteen residents

    Date: 2017-12-28 12:35:49 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:39 - ID:7163302

    CAIRO, Dec 28 (MENA) - Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi on Thursday endorsed the work of a Defense Ministry committee to settle recruitment problems of residents of Halayeb, Shalteen, Abu Ramad and Wadi el Alaqi who are over 30 years old. The ....

  • Sisi endorses law to regulate use of UAVs

    Date: 2017-12-27 09:36:19 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:12 - ID:7161218

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Wednesday endorsed a law to regulate the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Only the Defense Ministry is authorized to enforce articles of the law. Under the law, persons who import, ....

  • Sisi endorses amended to military retirement law

    Date: 2017-12-27 08:47:44 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:9 - ID:7161171

    CAIRO, Dec 27 (MENA) - President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Wednesday endorsed an amendment to some articles of the military retirement, insurance and pension law. Article one of the law has been amended setting the age of retirement for lieutenant ....

  • Chief of staff witnesses training program for Second Field Army

    Date: 2017-12-26 20:10:12 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:78 - ID:7160698

    CAIRO, Dec 26 (MENA) - Army Chief of Staff Lt. General Mohamed Farid on Tuesday witnessed the second phase of a training project involving a military unit affiliated to the Second Field Army. The project included training on the use of Multiple ....

  • Defense min. inspects training program for military, police cadets

    Date: 2017-12-26 18:39:13 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:74 - ID:7160701

    CAIRO, Dec 26 (MENA) – Minister of Defense and Military Production Sedqi Sobhi on Tuesday inspected a joint training program for cadets of the Egyptian Military Academy and the Police Academy. The program is aimed at training military and police ....

  • Army, police to take part in New Year security campaign

    Date: 2017-12-26 09:05:52 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:7 - ID:7159508

    CAIRO, Dec 26 (MENA) - Military troops have been deployed to public facilities, places of worship and major roads to help police in their security campaign placed for New Year celebrations. Security patrols and combat groups, as well as military ....

  • 4 Takfiris killed, weapons seized in northern Sinai - military spokesman

    Date: 2017-12-25 17:16:05 GMT - Egypt - Military - SN:64 - ID:7159065

    CAIRO, Dec 25 (MENA) - The second field army in cooperation with the Air Forces managed over the past few days to kill four Takfiri elements and seize weapons, which are used in manufacturing explosives in northern Sinai. In a statement on Monday, ....

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