Egypt voices concern over 'dangerously increasing pace of escalation' in region

CAIRO — Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty expresses to his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib his country’s “deep concern over the dangerously increasing pace of escalation” in the region.

Abdelatty affirmed, in a phone call with Bou Habib, Egypt’s support to Lebanon in confronting the threats surrounding it, the Egyptian foreign ministry says in a statement.