The US military will fly three planeloads of crucial humanitarian aid to North Sinai in Egypt to be brought into Gaza to aid civilians in the region, according to senior administration officials.

Egypt has been the second largest recipient of U.S. aid since it signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. It has received $80 billion in military and economic aid over the past 30 years.

Some US military aid to Egypt has already emerged as a casualty of the scandal. On Tuesday, the new chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, blocked $235m in ...

The U.S. military on Tuesday delivered its first of three rounds of humanitarian aid intended for the people of Gaza, according to the Pentagon. Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder told ...

US Military Aid to Egypt Released Despite Rights Concerns Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, on Capitol ...

And despite the calls to curtail a portion of US military aid to Egypt, Washington has continued to reward Cairo with arms sales. Earlier this year, the US approved an arms sale to Egypt valued at ...

Currently, the US government gives Egypt $1.3 billion annually in Foreign Military Financing. For the current fiscal year, $320 million of this sum is conditioned on Egypt meeting certain human ...

U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will divert $95 million in military aid allocated for Egypt to Lebanon, which faces threats from Hezbollah and other non-state actors and is enforcing a ...

Pentagon officials said that military aid and the decades-long close relationship with the Egyptian military had been jeopardized by the ongoing bloody assaults on street demonstrators, but they ...

The US military will fly three planeloads of crucial humanitarian aid to North Sinai in Egypt to be brought into Gaza to aid civilians in the region, according to senior administration officials.