Other coverage of Egypt in the international media worth noting in brief:

• Security forces arrested 13 suspected terrorists who were allegedly planning attacks against government, Christian, and police institutions in four northern provinces including Alexandria, the Times of Israel reports.
• The West’s embrace of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi will “backfire,” Meir Walters writes for Foreign Affairs (paywall). El Sisi “may cooperate with the West to maintain the status quo in the short-term, he is not a reliable partner for bringing stability to Egypt or the region,” Walters writes.
• Egypt should disclose whether it is holding four Hamas-affiliated Palestinians whose whereabouts are unknown, Human Rights Watch said.
• There needs to be a comprehensive change in the strategy Egypt uses to combat terrorism, Jihad Abaza writes for the Atlantic Council.
• Bloomberg is noting the minor role Egypt played in jumpstarting the North Korean weapons program back in the 1980s by selling it Scud Missile launch pads.
• Al Jazeera English reporter Baher Mohamed, who was arrested in the so-called Marriott Cell case in 2013, wrote a mini-memoir reflecting on his time in jail and solitary confinement.
• President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has “proved he outdoes his teacher Mubarak,” Haaretz’s Zvi Bar’el says in a highly critical piece on freedoms under El Sisi’s rule (paywall).