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The US-Egyptian joint military exercises Bright Star 2017, which starts next month<\/a>, \u201cstrengthens military-to-military relationships between US forces and our Egyptian partners,\u201d US Central Command spokesman Josh Jacques told CNN<\/a>. \u201cThe exercise enhances regional security and stability by responding to modern-day security scenarios,\u201d he adds. 2017 will be the first year the US partakes in the joint military exercises since former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled and the scheduled exercises for 2012 were cancelled. Former US President Barack Obama\u2019s administration also cancelled the exercise in 2014 over allegations of human rights abuses by the Egyptian government. Bright Star 2017 is a bilateral \u201ccommand-post exercise, field training exercise and senior leader seminar\u201d held with Egypt, Jacques says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US-Egyptian joint military exercises Bright Star 2017, which starts next month, \u201cstrengthens military-to-military relationships between US forces and our Egyptian partners,\u201d US Central Command spokesman Josh Jacques told CNN. \u201cThe exercise enhances regional security and stability by responding to modern-day security scenarios,\u201d he adds. 2017 will be the first year the US partakes in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9334],"tags":[72,622],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-642614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-security","tag-enterpriseam","tag-national-security","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"8b26f95d-e054-4113-ba27-7366e56e4e27","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[642575],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nBright Star strengthens military relationships -US CENTCOM - 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