{"id":69112,"date":"2016-02-10T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=69112"},"modified":"2016-02-11T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T07:44:45","slug":"sending-saudi-troops-to-syria-big-adventure-and-gamble-information-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=69112","title":{"rendered":"Sending Saudi troops to Syria &#8220;big adventure and gamble&#8221;, Information Minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi stressed that the Syrian Arab Army is determined to restore security and stability to Aleppo City, describing what the Saudi regime says about sending troops to Syria as a &#8220;big adventure and gamble&#8221; that the Saudi can not bear its results.<\/p>\n<p>Minister al-Zoubi told Reuters in an interview Wednesday that the battles to restore security and stability to Aleppo City are being conducted on different axes through military plans and there are a number of axes where terrorists&#8217; supply routes\u00a0have been completely cut off and became under the control of the Syrian army.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the terrorist organizations in Aleppo are big, well-finance and armed with modern arms, adding that these organizations, in addition to Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS, &#8220;have received US-made TOW anti-armor missiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the battle is not easy &#8220;but the day will come, God willing, when Aleppo \u2013its rural areas and the occupied part of the city, will return to the state authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect the battle of Aleppo to go on long,&#8221; al-Zoubi added, stressing that the battle is important because it is a process of drying up the sources of terrorism which is coming from the north from the inside of the Turkish territories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Idleb is within the goals of the overall military operation, but when it comes, it will have its own plan,&#8221; Minister al-Zoubi said.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding what the Saudi regime says of sending troops to Syria, al-Zoubi said &#8220;Even thinking about this is a big adventure and gamble, the results of which I don&#8217;t believe Saudi can bear, neither for its army or its internal situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that any international effort for fighting ISIS regardless of its type or details must be exclusively in coordination with the Syrian Government.<\/p>\n<p>R.J\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA- Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi stressed that the Syrian Arab Army is determined to restore security and stability to Aleppo City, describing what the Saudi regime says about sending troops to Syria as a &#8220;big adventure and gamble&#8221; that the Saudi can not bear its results. Minister al-Zoubi told Reuters in an interview Wednesday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":69113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}