Egypt remained Temporary_stay under British occupation Control until 1956 .

The first Battle Hostile_encounter of Homs was fought Hostile_encounter in Syria on December 10 , 1260 , between the Ilkhanates of Persia and the forces Hostile_encounter of Egypt .

The Fifth Crusade ( 1217–1221 ) was an attempt by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Conquering the powerful Ayyubid state in Egypt .

In order to attack Attack Damietta in Egypt , they allied Collaboration in Anatolia with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm which attacked Attack the Ayyubids in Syria in an attempt to free the Crusaders from fighting Hostile_encounter on two fronts .

On 1 February 2012 , a massive riot occurred Coming_to_be at Port Said Stadium in Port Said , Egypt , following an Egyptian Premier League football match between Masry and Ahly .

Cameroon won their fifth title after defeating Getting seven-time champions Egypt 2–1 in the final .

The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented Preventing_or_letting the Axis from advancing further into Egypt .

The Allied victory was the beginning of the end of the Western Desert Campaign , eliminating the Axis threat to Egypt , the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields .

After taking off from Benghazi , it became Becoming lost because of a combination of bad weather and equipment failure over northern Egypt .

Several minutes later , a bomb Attack was detonated next to an Israeli army patrol along Israel 's border with Egypt .

According to Egypt , they were killed Killing by Israeli security forces chasing militants across the Egyptian border , while an Israeli military officer initially said Telling they were killed Killing by a suicide bomber who had fled Escaping across the border into Egypt .

According to Egypt , they were killed Killing by Israeli security forces chasing militants across the Egyptian border , while an Israeli military officer initially said Telling they were killed Killing by a suicide bomber who had fled Escaping across the border into Egypt .

The five deaths triggered Causation a diplomatic row Quarreling between Egypt and Israel and led to Causation mass protests outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo .

According to media reports Reporting , Egypt threatened Warning to withdraw Removing its ambassador to Israel , but Egypt 's foreign minister later denied this .

According to media reports Reporting , Egypt threatened Warning to withdraw Removing its ambassador to Israel , but Egypt 's foreign minister later denied this .

Israel expressed Expressing_publicly regret over the deaths , and sent Sending a letter of apology Statement to Egypt. < ref name= '' NYT2011/10/12 '' > < /ref > The IDF was ordered Arranging to conduct Action a military probe Scrutiny of the incident , and on August 25 , 2011 , Israel agreed Agree_or_refuse_to_act to a joint investigation Research with Egypt of the events .

The Athenians were defeated Conquering in 454 BC by the Persians in Egypt which caused Causation them to enter Arriving into a five years ' truce with Sparta .

During the course of the war , the Seljuq Turks and their allies attacked Attack the Fatimid Caliphate of Egypt , capturing Conquering Jerusalem and catalyzing Process_start the call for the First Crusade .

Within a hundred years of Manzikert , the Byzantines had successfully driven Motion back the Turks from the coasts of Asia Minor and extended Expansion their influence right down to Palestine and even Egypt .

The Yom Kippur War , Ramadan War , or October War ( , ' , or מלחמת יום כיפור '' , `` ; , ' , or , ' ) , also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War , was a war fought from October 6 to 25 , 1973 , by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel .

The war took place Process_start mostly in Sinai and the Golan—occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War—with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel .

Egypt 's initial war objective was to use Using its military to seize a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal and use this to negotiate the return of the rest of Sinai .

The Israelis then counter-attacked Attack at the seam between the two Egyptian armies , crossed Motion_directional the Suez Canal into Egypt , and began Process_start slowly advancing southward and westward towards the city of Suez in over a week of heavy fighting that resulted in heavy casualties on both sides .

By October 24 , the Israelis had improved Cause_to_make_progress their positions considerably and completed Process_end their encirclement of Egypt 's Third Army and the city of Suez .

The 1978 Camp David Accords that followed led to Causation the return of the Sinai to Egypt and normalized Change relations—the first peaceful recognition of Israel by an Arab country .

Egypt continued its drift away from the Soviet Union and eventually left Departing the Soviet sphere of influence entirely .

The great majority of the coalition 's military forces were from the US , with Saudi Arabia , the United Kingdom and Egypt as leading contributors , in that order Arranging .

Peace agreements were signed Sign_agreement between Israel and Egypt in 1979 , resulting in Causation Israeli withdrawal Escaping from the Sinai Peninsula and abolishment GiveUp of the military governance system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip , in favor of Israeli Civil Administration and consequent unilateral annexation Change_of_leadership of the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem .

Despite the peace agreements Sign_agreement with Egypt and Jordan , interim peace accords Statement with the Palestinian Authority and the generally existing Presence cease-fire , until mid-2010s the Arab League and Israel had remained at odds with each other over many issues .

Egypt won the tournament Competition , their seventh ACN title and an unprecedented third in a row , beating Competition Ghana 1–0 in the final .

The 2011 Imbaba church attacks Attack were a series of attacks Attack that took place Process_start in Egypt on 7 May 2011 against Coptic Christian churches in the poor working-class neighborhood of Imbaba in Giza , near Cairo .