Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

…March 30, 2011, by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Egypt’s interim military government). It incorporated provisions from the 1971 constitution as well as new measures, approved by referendum in March 2011, to make elections more open, impose presidential term limits, and restrict the use of emergency laws. The…

…down as president, leaving the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, composed of Egypt’s highest-ranking military officers, to administer the country’s affairs. The announcement was met with jubilation among the crowds of protesters in Cairo.

…the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), a body of senior military officers that took over the governing of Egypt. He was elevated to the positions of defense minister and commander of the armed forces in August 2012 when Morsi, embroiled in a power struggle…