IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Sources in the Turkish-held northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Saturday denied the Turkish claims of Egyptian soldiers fighting alongside Syrian regime and Iranian militias in Syria.<\/p>\n
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Last week, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reported that Egypt sent nearly 150 soldiers to Syria to fight in the ranks of the Assad regime.<\/p>\n
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Ahmad Abu Mohammad, a Syrian activist based in Idlib who reports the conflict there, told North Press that there were no Egyptian troops in the region.<\/p>\n
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“Anadolu News agency has already published fake news two years ago about Egyptian pilots operating in the regime-held Hama military airbase,” he said. <\/p>\n
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Turkish claims against Egyptian troops came after the Egyptian parliament approved Egyptian troops deployment to Libya to fight against Libya's Turkish-backed, internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.<\/p>\n
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Egypt, alongside the United Arab Emirates and Russia, backs Libya's eastern-based military leader Khalifa Haftar against the Turkish-backed GNA.<\/p>\n
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Last month, the eastern-based Libyan parliament allied to Haftar asked Cairo to intervene militarily to counter Turkey.<\/p>\n
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Egyptian state TV later ran banners on the screen saying: “Egypt and Libya, one people, one fate.”<\/p>\n
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Egyptian officials often refer to armed groups in Tripoli and western Libya as “militias” and see Haftar as leading a “counter-terrorism force.”<\/p>\n
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