{"id":197871,"date":"2025-05-11T05:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-and-cyrus-discuss-strengthening-military-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T05:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T03:54:19","slug":"egypt-and-cyrus-discuss-strengthening-military-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-and-cyrus-discuss-strengthening-military-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt and Cyrus Discuss Strengthening Military Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production General Abdel Meguid Saqr met with Cypriot Minister of Defense Vasilis Palmas and his accompanying delegation, who are currently visiting Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A formal reception ceremony was held for Palmas at the General Secretariat HQ of the Ministry of Defense, where the military band played the national anthems of both countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The meeting addressed several topics of mutual interest in light of current&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production General Abdel Meguid Saqr met with Cypriot Minister of Defense Vasilis Palmas and his accompanying delegation, who are currently visiting Egypt. A formal reception ceremony was held for Palmas at the General Secretariat HQ of the Ministry of Defense, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6454,48789,6686,4697,415,3318,257,254,7148],"class_list":["post-197871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cooperation","tag-cyrus","tag-discuss","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthening"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}