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In this picture provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center front, Minister of Defense Sedki Sobhi, center right and former acting Egyptian president Adly Mansour, second left, attend the military funeral of Hisham Barakat the top judicial official in charge of overseeing the prosecution of thousands of Islamists, including former President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. (Egyptian Presidency via AP)
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FILE - In this Saturday, April 26, 2014 file photo, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing in his retrial over charges of failing to stop killings of protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his downfall, in the Police Academy-turned-court in the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. Egypt’s deposed leader Hosni Mubarak and his two sons were sentenced Saturday to three years in prison and a fine in a retrial on corruption charges they faced earlier. It wasn’t immediately clear whether it will include time he’s already served since his country’s 2011 revolt. (AP Photo/Tarek el Gabbas, File)
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir reads a document during a meeting of Arab heads of state, in Sharm el Sheik, South Sinai, Egypt, Saturday, March 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)
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In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, right, talks with Saudi King Salman after the king arrived in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Saturday, March 28, 2015. El-Sissi later made the remarks at the opening session of an Arab summit held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (AP Photo/MENA) (AP Photo/MENA)
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National Edition News cover for February 22, 2015 - Obama admin. pressured to ignore Egypt's human rights abuses as Islamic State threat grows: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, performs a posed handshake for photographers with Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the start of their meeting in London, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 photo, Egyptians wait to leave a detention center for illegal immigrants east of the city of Misrata, Libya during their deportation back to Egypt. The deportation follows the beheading of a group of Egyptian Christians by militants after they were abducted from Sirt(...)
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Egypt's government said its fighter jets pounded Islamic State camps and arms depots across the border in Libya, in the morning and in the afternoon, in response to a horrific video the terrorist group posted showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. (Associated Press)
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Men mourn over the Egyptian Coptic Christians who were captured in Libya and killed by militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, at the Virgin Mary church in the village of el-Aour, near Minya, 220 kilometers (135 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. A new trial for Morsi opened Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015, in Cairo, with prosecutors accusing him of espionage and leaking confidential information to Qatar while in office. Morsi, overthrown in July 2013 following mass protests demanding his resignation, does not recognize the court, and insists Egypt's current leadership came to power in a coup d'etat and is thus illegitimate. (AP Photo/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton laughs at a remark by Vice President Joe Biden as they wait for the start of a press statement by President Barack Obama and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office Aug. 18, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) ** FILE **
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In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint meeting of the Japan-Egypt business committee in Cairo, Egypt. Behind the sympathy Japanese are voicing over their two countrymen purportedly slain by the Islamic State group is a widespread view that they were "troublemakers." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
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"We need to revolutionize our religion," Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a startling speech. (Associated Press)
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Napoleon in Egypt Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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A man enters the high court ahead of a hearing for three Al-Jazeera English journalists in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) ** FILE **
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Egypt has banned Ridley Scott's "Exodus: Gods & Kings" from playing in theaters due to alleged historical inaccuracies and a "Zionist" agenda the film allegedly pushes. (Scott Free Productions via IMDb)
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, seated, and his two sons Gamal Mubarak, left, and Alaa Mubarak, right, attend a hearing in a courtroom at the Police Academy, Cairo, Egypt, in this Sept. 14, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Ahmed Omar, File)
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Sailing along the Nile River in Egypt. (Photo courtesy of Ilene Perlman)
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Travel and tourism in Egypt are returning following declines due to the Arab Spring unrest. Visitors can take a sunset camel ride by the pyramids of Giza. (Photo courtesy of Ilene Perlman)
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Egypt Hunger Food Shortage Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times