CAIRO, July 30 (UPI) -- Eight F-16 fighter planes will be delivered this week to Egypt, the U.S. embassy in Cairo announced, with four more to arrive in the autumn.
The move is part of a military aid package whose finances were unfrozen earlier in March, when President Barack Obama lifted a $1.3 billion hold on arms deliveries. Although the United States has been critical of the slowness of Egyptian democratic reforms, Egypt has remained a close security ally in the Middle East.