Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's foreign minister told AFP on Thursday.
"Saudi Arabia has expressed its readiness to send special forces to Syria as part of the coalition, with the goal of eliminating Daesh [Islamic State]. This is the mission and the responsibility," Adel al-Jubeir said, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS.
Riyadh has been a fierce opponent of Assad, but Jubeir said any participating Saudi force would make the battle against ISIS the priority.
"For now the objective of any ground forces or special forces would be to fight Daesh [Islamic State] on the ground in order to seize territory from them," he said.
"If they enter Syria, these forces will work in the framework of the international coalition to fight Daesh [Islamic State], there will be no unilateral operations," he said.
Asked if the mission could be expanded to include operations against Assad's forces, Jubeir said: "This would be something the international coalition would have to make a decision on."
Al-Jubeir also said Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
will continue until the country's legitimate government is fully restored to power.
"It's a matter of time before the international coalition in Yemen succeeds in restoring the legitimate government... in control of all of Yemen's territory," he said.
"The support for the legitimate government will continue until the objectives are achieved or until an agreement is reached politically to achieve those objectives."