Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press this morning is news that security forces killed six suspected militants during a raid in 6 October City. Reuters and the Associated Press both have the story.

The US’ release Egypt’s suspended military aid is a result of “distorted” US policies grounded in “persistent myths about Egypt,” Andrew Miller writes for Reuters. Miller argues that Washington’s USD 1.3 bn military aid package is not necessary for Egypt’s counterterrorism operations or its lasting peace with Israel, saying that the success of the war on terror is more contingent on training tactics than it is on further financing. He also says that Egypt has no strategic interest in turning its back on peace with Israel, meaning that the lack of US aid would not make a difference. The biggest misconception in US policy on Egypt is that pressuring Cairo yields no results, Miller says, arguing that successive US administrations have simply been too impatient to see these pressure tactics bear fruit.

Other headlines worth noting in brief:

• Human Rights Watch reiterated calls for an investigation into the dispersion of the 2013 Rabaa sit-in, issuing a statement yesterday to mark the event’s fifth anniversary.
• An Egyptian expatriate was stabbed to death in Kuwait after clashing with an Asian man, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai.
• The UK denied three Egyptian curators a visa to attend a conference in Wales, according to HyperAllergic.