In the post-war world, Egypt was growing closer to the Moscow and accepting Soviet arms. In the summer of 1956, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal, a critical ...
Neither revelry nor formal ceremonies will mark the canal’s 100th ... of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Suez today is a useless relic of what was once one of the world’s busiest waterways that ...
In 1956, an international crisis over control of the Suez Canal put Britain and France into ... #ColdWarHistory House approves massive National Defense Authorization Act with controversial ...
The first clause of the convention states that the Suez Canal “shall always be free and of commerce or of war, without the distinction of flag. "Consequently, the High Contracting Parties agree ...
The suspension of navigation through the Suez Canal has created an atmosphere of uncertainty. No-one knows exactly when things will go back to normal. The canal is congested. Dozens of ships are ...
Egypt was home to one of the world's most important transportation systems: the Suez Canal. But it was owned ... Israel jumped on the bandwagon of this war. The one thing that all three ...
The giant ship is causing a traffic jam in one of the world's busiest waterways A giant container ship the length of four football pitches has become wedged across Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking one ...