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German “Desert Fox” Erwin Rommel and the British Eighth Army left behind hundreds of thousands of mines and unexploded shells in their North African battles of World war II. The explosive relics are hampering Egypt’s access to untapped oil and gas reserves in the desert. By Joachim Hoelzgen more…
Photo Gallery: Egypt’s Development Hampered by WW2 [...]
Egypt allegedly allowed Hamas to smuggle weapons and fighters into the Gaza Strip for the battle against Israel, an intelligence report claims.
A group of suspected Hamas fighters were arrested after allegedly returning from training courses in Iran and Syria. About 15 of the suspects were allegedly allowed to cross into Gaza with a cache of [...]
Indeed, in the meeting Mohammadi offered Iran’s help in restoring order to the breached Gaza-Sinai border. DEBKAfile reported that he brought a proposal “to airlift tons of foodstuffs and medicines to El Arish airport [in northern Sinai] for Egyptian authorities to distribute to the Palestinians. This step would bring Iranian airplanes into the Egyptian-Israeli border [...]
Iran has sought to use Gaza’s border crisis to increase its influence in the Middle East.
Teheran offered yesterday to provide Egypt with funds to help with the influx of Palestinians flooding across the frontier.
It is the latest sign of improved relations between Cairo and Teheran which last week saw Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, telephone [...]
Sinai cut off from Egypt for the first time since 1982, 4,000 Palestinian infiltrators detained
January 28, 2008, 5:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s military and Middle East sources report that Monday, Jan. 28, as the Palestinian surge across the Gaza-Sinai border veered out of control, Cairo blockaded the Sinai Peninsula and the Suez Canal. The ferry service and [...]
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday that Iran was on the verge of normalizing diplomatic relations with Egypt after the ties have been cut for almost three decades.
“We are on the verge of resuming official political ties with Egypt,” Mottaki said at a news conference in Tehran. “Currently my representative is in Egypt [...]
An Egyptian official cited by Israel’s Ynet news portal on Monday warned that if Jerusalem does not mind its own business regarding the smuggling of terrorist arms into the Gaza Strip via the Egyptian Sinai, then Cairo will use its diplomatic clout in Africa to damage Israeli interests.
The official spoke to Ynet less than a [...]
Ali Larijani, top aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says his country is ready to cooperate with Egypt on nuclear issues if Cairo asks for help; says assistance would be given only with approval of International Atomic Energy Agency
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Egyptian and Saudi nuclear ambitions, on top of Iran’s atomic drive, will lead to an “apocalyptic scenario”, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said in comments published on Friday.
“If Egypt and Saudi Arabia begin nuclear programmes, this can bring an apocalyptic scenario upon us,” Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman told the English-language Jerusalem Post newspaper.
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CAIRO, October 29 (RIA Novosti) - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced on Monday that a program will soon be launched to build several nuclear power plants in the country, national news agency MENA reported.
Mubarak said a decree would soon be issued establishing a supreme council on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, which will oversee [...]
Egypt gets $2-billion in U.S. aid year — more than any country except Iraq, Israel and Afghanistan.
But what does the United States get for the rest of its millions?
It doesn’t get much good will. A new World Public Opinion poll found that 93 percent of Egyptians — the most in any Muslim country surveyed — [...]
CAIRO, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) — Egyptian and Iranian top diplomats are engaging in talks to boost bilateral ties amid increasing tension over the disputed Iranian nuclear program.
The two nations are expected to resume dialogue to build up an alliance against a potential military action on Iran, which would threaten the whole [...]
The warning was relayed to Cairo in the last 24 hours. DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose that the message means Israeli armed forces are standing by for an order to recapture the Philadelphi route running along the southern Gaza border with Egypt.
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Has the Arab League finally broken its taboo on ties with Israel by sending a delegation to Jerusalem? Depends who you ask. The Israeli government has declared Wednesday’s visit by the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan a historic landmark on the road toward acceptance of Israel by the Arab world. “In the past, the [...]
In the long history of Egyptian-Palestinian relations, and in particular the relationship between Egypt and Gaza, there has been nothing to rival the current crisis in Gaza for intensity and for the implications it holds for future stability in the area. While it is too early to tell whether a fundamentally different relationship will develop [...]
Egypt and Iran will hold a round of talks in the coming days aimed at restoring full diplomatic relations. The rapprochement was apparently made possible by the recent thaw between the United States and Iran.
According to sources in Egypt, Cairo’s Foreign Minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, is expected to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, [...]
Even as an Egyptian delegation has brought a supposed ceasefire offer from Palestinian Authority terrorist factions to Israeli officials, Knesset Member Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) warns that Egypt’s strategy is to drain IDF energy and resources by quietly promoting continued fighting with PA terrorists. In fact, Shteinitz warns, it is not unreasonable to assume that Egypt [...]
April 26 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush’s top Arab allies, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah, are edging away from him, skeptical about his ability to end bloodshed in Baghdad, make progress on Palestinian statehood and contain Iran’s nuclear program.
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Egypt will tap Russian expertise as it looks to build nuclear power plants to meet growing demand for electricity.
On a recent visit to Cairo, Russian minister of energy Viktor Khristenko said the two countries were drafting a civilian nuclear power agreement.
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What are the potential nuclear weapons states?
1. Egypt
2. Iran
3. Japan
4. South Korea
5. Taiwan
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CAIRO, April 10 (UPI) — Moscow and Cairo may collaborate on Egypt’s new plans to build nuclear power plants to fuel its electricity demand.
Russia’s minister of energy and industry said Tuesday during a visit to Cairo the two sides are drafting a civilian nuclear power agreement.
Egypt announced in September it will restart its nuclear [...]
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