Military forces from 20 countries will arrive in the next few hours in Saudi Arabia for a military maneuver, reported Saudi Press Agency Sunday.
The news agency described the maneuver, dubbed "Thunder of North," as the region's most important military exercise involving ground, air and naval forces.
It is also the largest in terms of numbers of participating nations and the amount of weaponry ever used in the Arabian Gulf.
The maneuver intends to highlight that Riyadh and its allies are united against regional challenges.
In addition to the six Gulf countries of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Qatar, other participating countries include Chad, Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, Senegal and Tunisia.
The maneuver comes as Saudi considers participating in land operations in cooperation with its international allies to fight the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Syria.
The maneuvers will take place in the Military City of King Khalid in Hafr Al-Batin, north of Riyadh.
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Turkey's air force on Monday began five days of air defence exercises with Saudi Arabia, the Turkish military said, as the two countries forge an increasingly tight alliance on Syria...
ReplyDeleteSix Saudi F-15 fighter jets will take part in the air defence training in the central Turkish region of Konya, the military said in a statement.
The exercises are within the framework of cooperation and military training between the two countries and had been scheduled in advance, it added. They will last until Friday.
But the start of the exercises comes just two days after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that Saudi jets would be based at Turkey's air base of Incirlik in Adana province to fight Islamic State (IS) group militants.
He also said that Turkey and Saudi could even launch a ground operation in Syria against IS, while emphasising no decision had been taken....AFP