DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has deployed warplanes to a Turkish airbase in order to “intensify” its operations against the Islamic State group in Syria, a senior Saudi defence official has said.
“The Saudi kingdom now has a presence at Incirlik airbase in Turkey,” Brig-Gen Ahmed al-Assiri was quoted as saying by Al-Arabiya television late on Saturday.
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