The United States may be about to announce significant cuts to its $1.2 billion in annual military aid to Egypt, according to some U.S. officials. That aid has been a defining feature of U.S. policy in the Middle East for decades. It was instituted as part of the historic, U.S.-brokered 1979 Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel. It's a linchpin of the U.S. alliance with Egypt, the Middle East's most populous country. So the fact that Washington might pull big pieces of that aid back could be a very big deal.
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