Egypt’s interim president, Adli Mansour, granted Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the authority for full mobilization starting the beginning of November of this year. The presidency said that a bill drafted in 1960 regarding the army’s full mobilization states

An Egyptian court has set a date for the trial of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, and some of the group’s leaders in relation to the Ittihadya violence that happened in December 2012. The trial will begin on November 4 before a Cairo criminal …

The United States said Oct. 9 it had suspended the delivery of major military hardware and cash assistance to Egypt in the wave of a bloody crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood. Washington has frozen “the delivery of certain large-scale military systems and cash assistance to the government pending credible progress …