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emen In Saudi_Arabia For Talks. • Increased Chinese Ties Imperil US Arms Sales To UAE. • Top Qatari Diplomat Meets With Egypt's Foreign Minister In Cairo. • Caup Leader Again Takes Control Of Mali • Somali Leader Say Deal Reached On Elections. THE BIG PICTURE • Headlines From Today's Front Pages.

meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, and other senior officials in Ramallah; meeting President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in Cairo; and meeting Jordan's King Abdullah II and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in A

tant aspects of a functioning democratic system. Faith in democracy flares up in moments of triumph, such as the overthrow of unpopular regimes in Cairo or Kiev, only to sputter out once again. EFTA00684344 Outside the West, democracy often advances only to collapse. And within the West, democracy

ssible rapprochement between Dahlan and the Islamic militants — apparently because of Dahlan's close ties to Egyptian military chief, Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Dahlan said he has met el-Sissi several times and supported last year's coup — he called it the "Egyptian revolution" — against the country's ruli

ime again, it is delusional to assume the Egyptian military is pro-American and thus a reliable bulwark against the advance of Islamic supremacism. Cairo's armed forces reflect the broader society, whose able-bodied men are required to serve — and, as even the Times now concedes, the Egyptian mainst

TA00712945 Artick 2. National Review Egypt's Military and the Arab Spring Andrew C. McCarthy August 18, 2012 -- Earlier this week, I wrote about Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. He is a Muslim Brotherhood adherent who rose to the rank of general in Egypt's military — the armed forces he has just been tapped to command by