MESOP AFTER HEZBOLLAH & IRANIAN TROOPS & AFGHAN TROOPS UNDER IRANIAN COMMAND & AFTER RUSSIAN TROOPS – NOW SAUDI ARABIA BOOTS ON THE GROUND

SAUDI ARABIA: WE ARE READY TO PUT GROUND TROOPS INSIDE SYRIA

Saudi Arabia has said that it is prepared to deploy ground troops inside Syria. Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asiri said on Thursday that Saudi soldiers would combat the Islamic State if the US-led coalition agreed to the offer:

If there was a consensus from the leadership of the coalition, the kingdom is willing to participate in these efforts because we believe that aerial operations are not the ideal solution and there must be a twin mix of aerial and ground operations.

However, local sources told EA that the Saudis might be signaling other intentions, notably support of rebels who are facing regime-Russian-Hezbollah-Iranian offensives in northwest Syria. They also suggested that Riyadh, along with Turkey, might want to check the advance of the Kurdish militia YPG, the armed branch of the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD).

Ankara believes that the PYD is led by the Turkish Kurdish insurgency PKK, which has battled Turkish forces for more than three decades. www.mesop.de