There are no Egyptian ground troops in Yemen: Saudi-led coalition spokesman

Saudi military spokesman General Ahmed Asiri dismissed Friday reports that Egyptian and Sudanese ground troops have been deployed in Yemen.

In an interview with Saudi state TV, Asiri criticised media reports claiming that Egypt has recently sent 800 ground troops to Yemen on Tuesday, describing the reports as “inaccurate”.

“If there were any of those troops [Egyptian and Sudanese] on the ground, we would have immediately announced the news as it is not a secret,” Asiri said.

In August 2015, Egypt extended by six months deployment of troops abroad as part of the Arab coalition which is securing the Arab Gulf and the Red Sea Bab Mandab Strait. Since March, the Egyptian air force and navy have taken part in the Saudi-led Arab military coalition against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, an Iran-backed Shia militant group which had seized large parts of the country’.

source:Ahram online