Kerry in Cairo to resume US-Egypt ‘strategic dialogue’

US Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo to resume a US-Egypt “strategic dialogue” that was suspended following the 2011 revolution.

According to media reports, Kerry arrived in Cairo on Saturday and on Sunday will hold security talks with Egyptian officials.

He will also meet former army chief and current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, under whose leadership the Egyptian army toppled President Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected leader, in July 2013.

The Egyptians launched a revolution against the pro-US regime of former President Hosni Mubarak in January 2011, which eventually ended the 30-year dictatorship of Mubarak in February 2011.

In June 2012, Egyptians voted in the country's first free and fair presidential election, electing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi as their leader.

But about a year later, the Egyptian army backed by the United States toppled Morsi, suspended the constitution and launched a violent crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood.

On December 25, 2013, the military-appointed government listed the Brotherhood as a “terrorist” organization over alleged involvement in a deadly bombing, without investigating or providing any evidence.