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Syrian JIHADIST fighters are operating in Nagorno-Karabakh, Macron says, citing ‘credible information’
Militants from extremist groups previously active in Syria have arrived in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh amid a military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, French President Emmanuel Macron has said.
“Now, we have credible information, which indicates that Syrian fighters from some jihadist groups have reached the Nagorno-Karabakh battlefield through Gaziantep,” Macron told journalists as he arrived at an EU summit in Brussels, mentioning a southern Turkish city the militants supposedly passed through on their way to the disputed region.
#BREAKING French President Macron claims fighters from Syria operating in Karabakh pic.twitter.com/p2qRqFrSbX
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 1, 2020
The French leader stopped short of accusing Ankara of being involved in the alleged deployment but said that “this is a very serious new fact that changes the situation” on the ground.
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