President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he will resume sending military aid to Egypt, two years after freezing the delivery of weapons in the wake of a military coup. Obama told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi that he would begin sending equipment, including F-16 fighter jets, missiles, and M1A1 tank kits, as well as the $1.3 billion in aid that the U.S. had been giving to Egypt each year. The White House issued a statement explaining the renewed assistance is to help “address the shared challenges to U.S. and Egyptian interests in an unstable region,” but expressed concern about the nation’s human-rights abuses. Egypt is part of the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as an offensive battling the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Libya.
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