Pentagon Chief Voices ‘Concern’ in Call to Egypt Army Head

The top U.S. defense official expressed “concern” about recent developments in Egypt in a call on Sunday to Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the Pentagon said.   Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expressed his condolences for the victims of a spate of recent bomb attacks in Egypt, and offered U.S. assistance to investigate the incidents, a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement.   A bomb exploded outside an Egyptian army building north of Cairo on Sunday, the...

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