{"id":205145,"date":"2025-08-21T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-defense-min-meets-northern-military-zone-troops\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:06:11","slug":"egypt-defense-min-meets-northern-military-zone-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-defense-min-meets-northern-military-zone-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Defense Min Meets Northern Military Zone Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Defense and Military Production Minister and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Meguid Saqr met with personnel from the Northern Military Zone on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in the presence of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ahmed Khalifa and senior military leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The visit is part of regular briefings aimed at aligning views on national security issues. Saqr conveyed greetings from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and underscored the importance of combat readiness amid regional and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200367.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>Defense and Military Production Minister and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Meguid Saqr met with personnel from the Northern Military Zone on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 in the presence of Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ahmed Khalifa and senior military leaders. The visit is part of regular briefings aimed at aligning views on national security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205146,"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":[258,256,8027,4697,415,6271,3318,14778,257,4282,254,8515,7073],"class_list":["post-205145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defense","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-meets","tag-military","tag-min","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops","tag-zone"],"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\/205145","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=205145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}