{"id":207043,"date":"2025-09-13T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-chief-of-staff-attends-final-phase-of-egypt-us-joint-exercise-bright-star\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:05:29","slug":"egypt-chief-of-staff-attends-final-phase-of-egypt-us-joint-exercise-bright-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-chief-of-staff-attends-final-phase-of-egypt-us-joint-exercise-bright-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Chief of Staff Attends Final Phase of Egypt-Us Joint Exercise &#8216;Bright Star&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa attended the final phase of Bright Star 25 exercise, co-hosted by Egypt and the United States, with the participation of 44 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">&#8220;The final phase included the execution of a series of naval training activities,&#8221; said the Egyptian Armed Forces&#8217; spokesman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff General Dimitrios Choupis, alongside a number of senior commanders from the Egyptian Armed Forces and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120605.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>Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Ahmed Khalifa attended the final phase of Bright Star 25 exercise, co-hosted by Egypt and the United States, with the participation of 44 countries. &#8220;The final phase included the execution of a series of naval training activities,&#8221; said the Egyptian Armed Forces&#8217; spokesman. Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207044,"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":[258,256,11034,8791,6510,4697,415,52330,13189,6038,6984,257,7136,254,6221,10128],"class_list":["post-207043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attends","tag-bright","tag-chief","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptus","tag-exercise","tag-final","tag-joint","tag-news","tag-phase","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-star"],"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\/207043","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=207043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}