Sisi

For many years, Egypt and Syria shared Soviet patronage, briefly formed a short-lived, failed union (the United Arab Republic), and fought monumental battles against their mutual Israeli adversary.

The incoming Trump administration wants Israel’s wars wrapped up quickly. Bibi should do this to keep president-elect Trump on board, as he likes winners.

Biden urged Sisi and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, whom he spoke to separately, to exert all efforts to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas.

Sisi, a former intelligence general, rose to power in 2013 after deposing of the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's only freely elected president.

Some voters said the eruption of conflict in Gaza had encouraged them to vote for Sisi, who has long presented himself as a bulwark of stability in a volatile region.

International election observers and human rights organizations have levied harsh criticism against Sisi’s government during his presidency.

A political resolution requires a Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital, has remained out of reach, Sisi insisted.

Kassem was convicted of libel and slander against a former cabinet minister and verbally assaulting officers at a police station after he was detained, said his lawyer, Nasser Amin.

Leading democracy advocate and publisher Hisham Kassem is arrested in Cairo, raising concerns about the stifling of political opposition in Egypt

Netanyahu thanked Sisi for his remarks, as well as his commitment to a joint investigation of the attack.