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In this file photo taken on September 13, 2011, Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, head of Egypt's ruling military council, points to a painting as he accompanies the visiting Turkish prime minister at the defense ministry in Cairo. (Amr Nabil/Pool/AFP)
September 21, 2021, 2:40 pm
Tantawi, military general who ruled Egypt after Mubarak ouster, dies at 85
Despite fighting in wars against Israel, his ruling council said Egypt would respect regional deals, implicitly confirming the two countries’ 1979 peace treaty would stay intact
By AFP
Egyptian honor guards carry the coffin of former president Hosni Mubarak during his funeral ceremony at Cairo's Mosheer Tantawi mosque in the eastern outskirts of the Egyptian capital on February 26, 2020 (Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
February 26, 2020, 2:19 pm
Egypt holds full-honors military funeral for Mubarak
Sissi praises predecessor’s service during the 1973 war with Israel but makes no mention of his rule as president
By Samy Magdy
Protesters in Cairo hold candles during a vigil on Wednesday marking the second anniversary of a military crackdown on protesters outside Egypt's state TV building, which resulted in 26 deaths. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)
October 10, 2013, 1:22 am
Vigil marks massacre of Egyptian Christians
Protesters divided over blaming the military for death of 26 people in 2011 incident, but all blame Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking on state television, July 3. (photo credit: Screenshot AP/Egypt State Television)
August 25, 2013, 8:25 pm
Israel an obstacle to Arab democracy, Egyptian strongman wrote
In a 2006 academic paper, General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi claimed the Arab-Israeli conflict makes Middle Easterners suspect democracy
By Elhanan Miller
Egyptian activist Maikel Nabil during his visit to Jerusalem's Hebrew University, December 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 23, 2013, 3:01 am
‘Egyptian Christians may face extinction,’ activist warns
The difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and the military isn’t as big as people think, says Maikel Nabil
By Elhanan Miller
General Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (photo credit: AP/Jim Watson, Pool)
July 9, 2013, 8:58 am
Egyptian military’s new look challenged
The top brass facing off against the Muslim Brotherhood has undergone significant changes since the revolution of 2011
By Hamza Hendawi
An Egyptian supporter of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi dances by a poster of Morsi during a rally outside the Rabia el-Adawiya mosque near the presidential palace in Cairo, Saturday, June 29 (photo credit: APAmr Nabil)
June 30, 2013, 12:24 am
A replay of Mubarak’s twilight, this time with Morsi?
Egypt’s previous president thought the army would stand with him; a year after inauguration, his elected successor knows that’s not the case
By Avi Issacharoff
Protesters chant slogans against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi outside a court in Ismailia, Egypt. (photo credit: AP/Mostafa Darwish, File)
June 26, 2013, 3:28 am
Egypt protesters look to army for support
With massive June 30 demonstrations looming, there’s been no movement toward resolution — and the opposition is determined to oust the president
By Hamza Hendawi
Salafi members of parliament in Cairo, February 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP)
October 16, 2012, 2:00 pm
Russia’s choice on Syria
Moscow may be capable of disposing of Assad ‘within days’ if it so wishes, but it does not have the ability to keep him in power indefinitely, pundit says
By Elhanan Miller
Egyptians sit in front of graffiti showing faces of people killed in the 2011 revolution, right, and the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, casting his vote, center, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)
October 15, 2012, 6:22 pm
Egypt probes military leaders’ role in protesters’ deaths
Civilian judge to investigate officers for first time since Mubarak’s downfall
Egyptian guards patrol near the Israeli-Egyptian border (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa/File)
August 29, 2012, 5:14 pm
In new blow to the military, Egypt’s president to regain exclusive right to declare war
‘The opinion of the armed forces is consultative,’ says member of the constitutional assembly
By Elhanan Miller
Egyptian Field Marshal Gen. Hussein Tantawi (left) and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (center) attend a medal ceremony at a military base east of Cairo (photo credit: Mohammed Abd El Moaty, Egyptian Presidency/AP)
August 17, 2012, 12:22 pm
Morsi pledges to keep cleansing Sinai until it is safe
Egyptian president confirms that others, including Palestinians, are assisting in ‘surgical operation’
By Asher Zeiger
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Cairo on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. (photo credit: Egyptian Presidency/AP)
August 16, 2012, 2:00 am
With new chief, a new generation in Egypt military
Mohammed Morsi has tapped into discontent among younger officers who apparently grew frustrated with the aging generals
By Sarah El Deeb
Then-Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, right, swears in newly-appointed Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, left, in Cairo in August 2012 (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)
August 13, 2012, 2:50 pm
Since Egypt isn’t talking to us, we don’t know what it’s planning, Jerusalem complains
Israel wary of Morsi’s personnel changes; newly installed defense minister takes call from Hamas leader Haniyeh
By Gabe Fisher and Stuart Winer
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi swears in Minister of Defense, Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi August 12 (photo credit: AP photo)
August 13, 2012, 1:01 pm
The Egyptian president’s grand surprise
Most Arab media view Morsi’s ‘soft coup’ favorably
By Elhanan Miller
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