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| Egypt renews troop mission in Red Sea and Bab Al-Mandab Strait |
| 2017-01-23 |
| [AlAhram] The National Defence Council meeting was headed by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. Egypt's National Defence Council agreed in a Sunday meeting to extend the deployment of Egyptian Armed Forces units in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait, MENA reported. A statement by the Egyptian presidency said that the meeting approved extending the mission of the Egyptian Armed Force units on a foreign assignment to defend the country's national security in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab strait. The statement did not put a timeframe on the duration of the extension, according to MENA. The meeting was headed by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and attended by the ministers of defence, finance, foreign affairs and interior, as well as commanders of Egypt's Armed Force along with the chiefs of intelligence agencies. Egypt’s has been participating in the Saudi-led military operation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... against Iranian-backed Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews... rebels since March 2015. |
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