Posted on 11/24/2016 6:47:38 PM PST by Texas Fossil
DAMASCUS, SYRIA (2:20 P.M.) - Egyptian fighter jets landed for the first time at the Hama Military Airport this week, the Lebanon-based As-Safir newspaper reported on Wednesday morning.
As-Safir claims that these Egyptian fighter jets will participate in the ongoing military operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), while also providing logistical support to the Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAYF).
Al-Masdar contacted the Syrian Air Force to corroborate this report by As-Safir; however, no response has been received yet to verify the validity of this claim.
Last month, several Egyptian military advisors traveled from Cairo to the Port of Tartous in order to participate in a training session with their Russian counterparts at the T-4 Airport in east Homs.
Gonna be interesting if they shoot down a Turkish fighter...
Well, the Turks shot down a Russian fighter exactly 1 year ago.
Erdogan is an arrogant bastard. He is no ally, in spite of Turkey being a part of NATO.
I would put money on the Turks in that kind of battle. This is a new dynamic, which I am sure caught the Obama Administration completely off guard.
This is wonderful news. Here we see what should be. non Jihadis killing Jihadis. We don’t have a dog in that fight. Thank you for sharing.
This is coming across as the coupe-de-grace of Clinton-Obama’s Arab Spring.
Good riddance to the anarchy those two sociopaths created.
The Turks have no right to invade Syria’s sovereign territory and they have no right to intentionally enter Syrian airspace.
long time ago
believe it or NOT.
Egypt and Syria were one country.
the United Arab Republic
Egypt joining the fight on the side of the Syrian government is a huge game-changer to the benefit of President Assad.
Egypt is the largest and militarily most powerful Sunni Arab country. This will break the Sunni vs. Shia/Alavi/Druze/Christian divide in the Syrian war.
It most of all is a big middle finger to the Saudis and Turks who tried to built an united front of Sunni states against Assad and paint him as ‘sectarian’.
God works in mysterious ways.
Hillary’s effort to install the muslim brotherhood in Egypt, instead resulted in general sisi taking power.
wtg Hillary :p
“...which I am sure caught the Obama Administration completely off guard.”
The sun coming up in the morning catches the Obama Administration completely off guard every day.
Yes.
And of course Obama/Hillary was consistently on the “wrong side” of the battle.
And Egyptians are not “Arabs”.
“God works in mysterious ways.”
Indeed.
Not all “Arabs” are ethnically the same.
An Egyptian culturally and racially is not the same as a Saudi, Moroccan or Syrian.
However they have a common bond in the Arab language, script and partially shared Islamic history.
The modern ideology of (Pan)Arabic nationalism further created a bond between otherwise very different Arab nations.
Most Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians etc. will insist on certain differences, but agree on being “Arabs” nontheless.
The ones I have become friends with don’t. They will tell you they are not Arab. And they are from the crowd that absolutely revere President Sisi.
Ethnically, Egyptians do not originate in Arabic blood lines.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/08/egyptian-arab-cultural-identity
“Studies on modern Egyptian DNA support the view that neither Egyptian Muslims nor Copts are Arab. All the invasions that Egypt has experienced over millennia, including the Arab invasion, do not seem to account for more than 15% of modern Egyptians’ ancestry.”
Sure bloodwise/racially this certainly is right.
But despite a different dialect Egyptians are Arabic speaking and writing.
If more Egyptians insist on not being Arabs... more power to them. The few Egyptians I knew some time ago were Nasserists and did see themselves of the greater Arab “family” at least ideologically. Racially they were probably Albanians or Circassians... very “European”.
In any case self-identification often undergoes ideological changes.
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