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In this image made from video broadcast on Egypt's State Television, Egypt's retired Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi listens to a question during an interview in a nationally televised program in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, May 5, 2014. Former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said that he decided to run for president of Egypt because of the &quot;threats&quot; facing the country, speaking in the first TV interview of his campaign. (AP Photo/Egypt's State Television)

Egypt’s el-Sissi: Brotherhood will not return

By SARAH EL DEEEB and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

Egypt’s ex-army chief says he decided to run for president because of threats facing country

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Cairo launches economic-development push

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Egyptian women mourn after a judge sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country's ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt, Monday, April 28, 2014. Under the law, Monday's verdicts in Minya have to be referred to Egypt's Grand Mufti, the top Islamic official, said one of the attorneys, Ahmed Hefni. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

Egypt judge sentences 683 Islamists to death over Morsi-tied violence

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, come in for a landing at Camp Taji, Iraq, after completing a reconnaissance mission in the skies over Baghdad Nov. 6, 2007. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **

U.S. lifts ban on attack helicopters for Egypt; Apaches sent to counter growing al Qaeda threat

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

Pro-Muslim Brotherhood students block a road with burning tires and chant slogan against the police and army, outside the main campus of Cairo University, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The interior ministry blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails and which the government has declared a terrorist group, for two deadly attacks on policemen on Wednesday. The group denies it is behind the violent campaign, and insists it is pursuing a peaceful protest strategy. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk) EGYPT OUT

Bomb, shooting in Egypt kills 2 police officers

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, shakes hands with Coptic Pope Tawadros II at Cairo’s St. Mark’s Cathedral, seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 19, 2014. El-Sissi on Monday took the final formal step to run in next month's presidential election, submitting to the election commission eight times the number of signatures required. He is widely expected to win. (AP Photo/Girgis Mahboub, Office of the Coptic Pope)

Egypt: Ex-army chief, leftist to run for president

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 file photo, Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef poses during an interview with The Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. On Saturday, April, 19, 2014, the Saudi-owned television network Middle East Broadcasting Center says the top Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef will be off the air until after the Egyptian presidential elections to avoid influencing voters. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Egypt’s el-Sissi visits Coptic pope before Easter

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, file photo, a man and child walk past a crater from a suicide car bomb attack on the road between the border town of Rafah and the coastal city of el-Arish, Egypt. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abu Deraa, File)

Jihadists spread terrorism in chaos of Egypt, target military

By Daria Solovieva - Special to The Washington Times