(MENAFN) Rex Tillerson, U.S. Secretary of State, assured that Egypt's battle against the Islamic case has the United States by its side, even though it still supports free and fair elections in the Arab country.

Regardless of the resolution made by President Trump to declare Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Tillerson guaranteed Washington to be commitment towards attaining peace between Palestine and Israel.

The statement was made during a joint conference with his Egyptian counterpart, as his arrival came abut with a fierce situation between Israel and Syria intensifying over the firing of an Israeli f-16 jet.

The campaign launched by the Egyptian army has emerged before the occurrence of the presidential election in March, which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi aims to win.

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