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Saudi Arabia confirms that it will deploy troops to Syria

ISIS is common threat for both Iran and Saudi Arab. I think sane approach is mechanism to adopt coordinated efforts against non state actors.

You can't win anything through these proxy wars
Really? You think that ISIS is a threat to Saudi Arabia? While it has thousands of Saudi Arabian forces? While it is fighting all of those who Saudis consider as enemy (Iran, Hezbollah, SAR, Hashed Shaabi)? while it is spreading the Wahhabi school ideology? While it is providing almost all of Saudi interests in the region? While it is neutralising all of revolutionary movements and provide the safety of the Saudi reign?
Honestly, I don't think that the disadvantages of ISIS for the Zionist regime, KSA and USA is even 1% of its benefits for them.
 
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Really? You think that ISIS is a threat to Saudi Arabia? While it has thousands of Saudi Arabian forces? While it is fighting all of those who Saudis consider as enemy (Iran, Hezbollah, SAR, Hashed Shaabi)? while it is spreading the Wahhabi school ideology? While it is providing almost all of Saudi interests in the region? While it is neutralising all of revolutionary movements and provide the safety of the Saudi reign?
Honestly, I don't think that the disadvantages of ISIS for the Zionist regime, KSA and USA is even 1% of its benefits for them.

man you guys always make the crybaby on wahabi and yet there is no ISIS thread to iran
 
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man you guys always make the crybaby on wahabi and yet there is no ISIS thread to iran
"there is no ISIS thread to Iran"; this things are used by Media to deceive illiterate people, don't use such things in a forum, people will laugh at you.
But just in case that you really don't know; Iran is spending billions on fighting ISIS out of our borders, which caused a huge damage on the Iranian economy. It's 5 years that we're burying several new martyrs every single month; people who lost their life in war on the takfiri terrorism. If you knew how many ISIS airplane hijacking and suicide attack attempts have been neutralised just in the last week, you wouldn't deliver me these nonsenses.
 
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Assad says sees risk of Turkey, Saudi Arabia invading Syria
Published time: 12 Feb, 2016 19:12

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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad © SANA / Reuters
‘Aggressors to return home in coffins’: Syrian FM warns against foreign ground op
Riyadh has indeed expressed a desire to send ground troops to the country, should the US-led coalition agree to the move. On Friday, the country’s foreign minister said that Saudi Arabia’s goal was to remove Assad, confidently stating “we will achieve it.”

Speaking at a security conference in Munich, FM Adel al-Jubeir called Assad the “single most effective magnet for extremists and terrorists in the region,” asserting that he must be removed from office if stability is to be restored. “That’s our objective and we will achieve it,” he said.“Unless and until there is a change in Syria, Daesh will not be defeated in Syria, period.”

However, Assad is equally confident that he can retake control of the whole of Syria, large swathes of which are currently under the control of opposition forces and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

“Regardless of whether we can do that or not, this is a goal we are seeking to achieve without any hesitation,” he said, adding that it “makes no sense for us to say that we will give up any part.”

Assad said he believes it is possible to “put an end to this problem in less than a year” if opposition supply routes from Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq are blocked.

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If such routes remain open, however, “the solution will take a long time and will incur a heavy price,” he added.

The main battle is about cutting the road between Aleppo and Turkey, for Turkey is the main conduit of supplies for the terrorists,” Assad said.

He noted that the Russian-backed government offensive in Aleppo is aimed at cutting off that supply route. The Syrian government has been receiving air support from Moscow, its key ally.

Assad went on to say that he supports peace talks, but stressed that the Syrian government will not “stop fighting terrorism.”

He blamed Europe for “giving cover to terrorists in the beginning” and for the sanctions imposed on Syria, stating that the EU has been the “direct cause for the emigration” of Syrians.

The interview, conducted at Assad’s Damascus office on Thursday and published on Friday, is the first the leader has given since the collapse of a new round of peace talks in Geneva earlier this month. Talks have officially been put on hold until February 25. On Friday, 17 nations taking part in talks in Munich agreed to an ambitious plan that would end hostilities in Syria with verifiable results within a week, revive the Geneva-3 peace talks, and immediately begin delivering humanitarian aid to civilians.

Syria has been the scene of a gruesome civil war since 2011, which has led to the deaths of more than 250,000 people and displaced more than 12 million, according to UN figures.



Assad says sees risk of Turkey, Saudi Arabia invading Syria — RT News

U.S. sees Saudi Arabia and UAE sending commandos to Syria

By Phil Stewart7 hours ago


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday he expected both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to send special operations forces to Syria to help local opposition fighters in their drive to retake the city of Raqqa from Islamic State.

Carter, who has long sought greater participation of SunniArab allies in Syria, did not disclose how many commandos he expected them to deploy nor the timing of those deployments.

But he suggested they would play a major role taking back Raqqa, the Islamic State's defacto capital, from the militants.

"We’re going to try to give opportunities and power to ...particularly Sunni Arabs in Syria who want to re-seize their territory back from ISIL, especially Raqqa," Carter told reporters traveling with him in Brussels.

Carter made the remarks after talks with his UAE and Saudi counterparts on Friday and Thursday respectively.

Four months of Russian air strikes in Syria have helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad claw back territory from rebelsfighting government forces, alarming Gulf Arab states who back the insurgents.

Saudi Arabia had concentrated its military efforts over the last year on the conflict in Yemen, where it is leading a coalition of mainly Gulf Arab forces battling Houthi fighters who control the capital, Sanaa.

But it appears to be widening its focus. Carter said on Thursday Saudi Arabia committed to expand its role in the air campaign and the United Arab Emirates said it would restart its participation.

Saudi Arabia and Gulf states took part on Thursday in the largest gathering so far of defense ministers from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, which Carter hosted at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Carter said the group collectively approved a campaign plan that aims to recapture the two main Islamic State strongholds of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, as well as grappling with the group's spread beyond its self-declared caliphate.

That plan, however, does not include deployment of large-scale foreign ground forces to Iraq and Syria and Carter stressed that coalition commandos were meant to bolster local forces, not replace them.

"We're not looking to substitute for them, any more than we're looking to substitute for the Iraqi forces. But we are looking to enable them strongly and help them organize themselves," he said.

The United States has already deployed a small group of special operations forces to Syria and Carter said other allies, beyond Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, were considering commando deployments.

"Some don't even like to acknowledge the operations of special forces, but there are a number of them. And we are the organiser of them," Carter said.

Asked whether the Saudis and UAE were already operating in Syria, Carter said: "No. They've had kind of liaisons there ... We're talking about mapping that up."

(Editing by Louise Ireland)

U.S. sees Saudi Arabia and UAE sending commandos to Syria - Yahoo News

 
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You will see ! :devil:

The Saudis have very little war experience in modern time. Their foray in Yemen has not yielded the desired outcome considering that Yemen literally is next door. Paying mercenaries to fight your wars is way different than sending in your troops.

If the adventure turn disastrous, a situation like that will create a lot of problems for the Al Saud family inside the Kingdom.
 
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But I think sending forces to syria will prove to be a blunder and it can also cause even a bigger war between saudi arabia and iran. Pakistan should keep its hands off of that arab coalition.

You are strategically bound to come to Saudi's aid, if it gets into a direct conflict and its territory is in danger. Iran, Russia, Syria or any other country it doesn't matter.
Which means in any escalation of war and direct confrontation, you will have to send troops to Saudi to prevent Iranian military or any other military to enter the country.



If syrian rebels are mujahideen then yemeni houthis are also mujahideen by that same logic. Saudia calls houthis as terrorists and iran calls syrian rebels as terrorists. I don't see a difference. Both should stop meddling in each others backyards.

It will be unlikely that this will stop if KSA keeps escalating this tension with boots on ground.

Technically they are going into a spiral that will have dangerous results for Gulf region.
 
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Iran generals do have a point that Saudi Arabian troops are inexperienced when it comes to modern warfare unlike Iranian troops who have been operating massively in the Middle East for the last three decades.

Yemen was their first war so it explains why their performance was not good in Yemen but at least in Syria, KSA won't be alone.
 
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Iran generals do have a point that Saudi Arabian troops are inexperienced when it comes to modern warfare unlike Iranian troops who have been operating massively in the Middle East for the last three decades.

Yemen was their first war so it explains why their performance was not good in Yemen but at least in Syria, KSA won't be alone.

In what sense have Iranian troops had experience of modern warfare fighting a group of badly armed defense force units who were under constant bombardment from a major world power?

If Putin's forces dare to bomb Saudi and Gulf Arab forces on the ground, you can absolutely bet that unlike the case of the miserable Syrian people, the Gulf Arab and Turkish forces will be armed with anti-aircraft weaponry which will at the very least give Russian pilots some twitchy sphincter moments.
 
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KSA cannot act on its own. It only pursues usa policies like saddam was doing. Yemen war too is at behest of usa and israel. usa is only fooling ksa.

warmongering like saddam will not last long.

what the usa did to their own puppet Saddam, will do same to KSA in the end. :rofl:

Iran generals do have a point that Saudi Arabian troops are inexperienced when it comes to modern warfare unlike Iranian troops who have been operating massively in the Middle East for the last three decades.

Yemen was their first war so it explains why their performance was not good in Yemen but at least in Syria, KSA won't be alone.

well said. that is why this all be directly under usa / nato supervision. saudi and turk will not be alone in syria.

Rebels cannot hold anymore against the Syria government which called in Russian and Iranian help.

Therefore saudi and turk military is needed to guarantee survival of the Nato supported Rebels.
 
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I will offer my opinion about this: I think this is more an effort to strengthen the position of the opposition in Syria when it comes to negotiations, because currently all the cards are stacked against them (they are fighting daesh, Hezbollah, Iranians, Iraqi militia, Russians, etc) and they are becoming more and more irrelevant. Depending on how large scale this intervention will be, I think the rebels will be more strengthened and more cohesive.

Of course, the stated goal of defeating daesh is a very honorable one and I think every capable Arab country should contribute to these efforts however it can.
 
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Iran generals do have a point that Saudi Arabian troops are inexperienced when it comes to modern warfare unlike Iranian troops who have been operating massively in the Middle East for the last three decades.

Yemen was their first war so it explains why their performance was not good in Yemen but at least in Syria, KSA won't be alone.
We're massively operating in the ME? We're experienced? If you talk about our commanders, Yes they have a good experience from the Iran-Iraq war but our forces aren't really experienced, only a small part of our special forces have participated in the recent conflicts. I think the main advantage of Iranians in comparison to other countries, is their moral. Iranian forces strongly believe in their goals and literally "love" to die for…something that you don't see elsewhere.
 
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We're massively operating in the ME? We're experienced? If you talk about our commanders, Yes they have a good experience from the Iran-Iraq war but our forces aren't really experienced, only a small part of our special forces have participated in the recent conflicts. I think the main advantage of Iranians in comparison to other countries, is their moral. Iranian forces strongly believe in their goals and literally "love" to die for…something that you don't see elsewhere.

Yes, we witnessed that during the first Gulf War. Those 7 - 10 year olds clutching gold colored paper 'keys to heaven'.
 
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the OIC as an organization risks becoming rendered worthless unless IRan and Saudis set aside their differences.

Iran sends troops, Saudi sends troops, Iran and Saudis send proxies.....the Syrians themselves are divided. What a clusterfuck, I tell you
 
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