Saudi warplanes may come to Turkey within days: Minister

Feb 17, 2016, 00:42

But Turkey said that both Ankara and Riyadh would support a coalition ground operation.

Cavusoglu said that Saudi officials arrived at Turkey and did a reconnaissance of the base.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also said the talk that the two countries, which support insurgents fighting to topple Assad, were planning to send ground troops to Syria to fight Islamic State was a pretext for them to "to gain a foothold" there.

The oil-rich nation described the exercises as "the largest and most important" military drills in the region's history.

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The countries partaking in the coalition alongside Saudi Arabia being Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, State of Palestine, Comoros Islands, Ivory Coast, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Yemen.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Sunday that Switzerland has agreed to handle its diplomatic services in Iran so that Iranian pilgrims can continue to visit the oil-rich kingdom.

Riyadh has also signalled that the kingdom is prepared to send ground troops into Syria, and has sent aircraft to a Turkish airbase in preparation to expand their involvement in the Syrian civil war.

Obama has ruled out sending United States ground troops to Syria. "Movement of weapons, equipment or terrorists, or fortification of positions, will not be allowed", he said, adding that if a truce "happened, it doesn't mean that each party will stop using weapons".

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Riyadh announced last December the creation of the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism, which consists of 34 countries, many of which are included in the current exercises.

The Russians and their Syrian, Iranian allies claim Syria despite the myriad of hands firmly in the pot.

But Jubeir, whose country is among the main Syrian opposition backers, said that "it is impossible for a man behind the killing of 300,000 innocent people...to remain" in power.

Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution think tank, said Sunday that it's hard to see how Russia's role in the Syrian conflict is constructive as long as its priority is protecting Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime.

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According to Saudi officials, an invasion of Syria would aim at toppling Assad - the main goal of the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Turkey since the outbreak of war in Syria five years ago.