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 ...

It was in the early afternoon of 6 October that Mushira learned from the radio that the war had started. Like the spouses of other soldiers in the battlefield, Mushira had moments of mixed ...

“It was at best a stalemate … but it was a political victory,” he says. The events of the first few days of the war are uncontested. On 6 October 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched simultaneous ...

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 ...