On the 47th anniversary of the October 1973 War, Ahram Weekly talks to members of Battalion 603, kept under Israeli siege for over four months after a ceasefire was announced. It is a pleasant ...

Egyptians don’t call it the Yom Kippur War, they call it the 6th of October. On this day in 1973, the Egyptian Army, supported by the Air Force under the leadership of General Hosni Mubarak ...