{"id":3082,"date":"2026-10-21T21:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:03:50","slug":"egypts-sisi-says-saudi-defence-role-would-not-include-attack-on-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s Sisi says Saudi defence role would not include attack on Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt\u2019s military effort to \u200bdefend Saudi Arabia would not include \u200can attack on Yemen and would be limited to defending the kingdom\u2019s \u200bterritory and borders, according to \u200ba statement by the Egyptian presidency \u2060spokesperson on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Egypt\u2019s parliament \u200bdelayed until October 26 a vote \u200bon authorising the armed forces to support Saudi Arabia if requested, lawmakers said, extending \u200bdeliberations over a potentially deeper \u200bEgyptian role following recent attacks by Yemen\u2019s \u200cHouthis.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt \u2060would also defend the territory of any other Arab country if asked, while its military effort would not \u200bextend \u200bbeyond Egypt \u2060or a fellow Arab state whose security and stability \u200bCairo sought to protect, \u200bthe \u2060statement said. Sisi added that Egypt\u2019s support for Gulf states was an \u2060extension \u200bof shared Arab national \u200bsecurity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt\u2019s military effort to \u200bdefend Saudi Arabia would not include \u200can attack on Yemen and would be limited to defending the kingdom\u2019s \u200bterritory and borders, according to \u200ba statement by the Egyptian presidency \u2060spokesperson on Wednesday. On Monday, Egypt\u2019s parliament \u200bdelayed until October 26 a vote \u200bon authorising the armed forces to support Saudi Arabia if requested, lawmakers said, extending \u200bdeliberations over a potentially deeper \u200bEgyptian role following recent attacks by Yemen\u2019s \u200cHouthis. Egypt \u2060would also defend the territory of any other Arab country&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}