[IsraelTimes] While combating Sinai Islamists, Cairo seeks to organize coalition against IS in Libya; bigwig compares battle to Yom Kippur War
| The growing military alliance has also been anchored with a quid-pro-quo: Gulf oil powerhouses Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have given Egypt an estimated $30 billion to rescue its damaged economy and in return Egypt’s military provides manpower alongside its Gulf counterparts. |
Egypt is making an ambitious bid to place itself at the center of the fight against extremism across the Middle East.
Beyond fighting gunnies in its own Sinai Peninsula, it is trying to organize an international coalition against the Islamic State |