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Egypt, Jordan Conduct Joint Military Exercises

The Egyptian-Jordanian military drills (the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson’s Facebook page)
The Egyptian-Jordanian military drills (the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson’s Facebook page)
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Egypt, Jordan Conduct Joint Military Exercises

The Egyptian-Jordanian military drills (the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson’s Facebook page)
The Egyptian-Jordanian military drills (the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson’s Facebook page)

Units from the Egyptian and Jordanian Armed Forces on Monday launched joint military drills, code-named Aqaba 6.

The exercises will last until December 2 with the participation of the Egyptian and Jordanian maritime, air, and ground forces.

The Egyptian armed forces revealed that the preliminary phase of the training included practical and theoretical lectures to learn about combat expertise and to unify concepts between the participating sides.

They also aim to introduce the technology of weapons and equipment in addition to field skills, to confirm the forces' readiness to carry out joint combat actions.

The exercise aims to develop defense capabilities within agreed-upon plans, exchange expertise in planning, control, and command, and unify joint military concepts.

The drill is part of a strategy to enhance military cooperation between the armed forces of both countries.

The Jordanian-Egyptian military drills code-named Aqaba 5 were held in Oct. 2019.

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Syrians Recover Human Remains from Site Used by Hezbollah and Other Assad Allies

An aerial view taken with a drone shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, the White Helmets, loading human remains in body bags on a truck in the Sayyida Zeinab district of Damascus, Syria, 18 December 2024. (EPA)
An aerial view taken with a drone shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, the White Helmets, loading human remains in body bags on a truck in the Sayyida Zeinab district of Damascus, Syria, 18 December 2024. (EPA)
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Syrians Recover Human Remains from Site Used by Hezbollah and Other Assad Allies

An aerial view taken with a drone shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, the White Helmets, loading human remains in body bags on a truck in the Sayyida Zeinab district of Damascus, Syria, 18 December 2024. (EPA)
An aerial view taken with a drone shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, the White Helmets, loading human remains in body bags on a truck in the Sayyida Zeinab district of Damascus, Syria, 18 December 2024. (EPA)

The Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, uncovered at least 21 corpses as well as incomplete human remains on Wednesday in the Sayyida Zeinab suburb of the capital Damascus.

The discovery was made at a site previously used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran-backed Iraqi militias, both allies of deposed President Bashar al-Assad during the country’s civil war.

The site included a field kitchen, a drugstore and a morgue, according to Ammar al-Salmo, an official with the White Helmets, a volunteer organization that operated in areas that were controlled by the opposition.

Rescue teams in white hazmat suits searched the site, located not far from the revered shrine of Sayyida Zeinab. The remains were placed into black bags and loaded onto a truck as bystanders from the neighborhood looked on.

“Some (of the remains) are skeletons, others are incomplete, and there are bags of small bones. We cannot yet determine the number of victims,” al-Salmo said.

“Damascus has become a mass grave,” he said, pointing out the growing reports of war-related graves and burial sites in the capital and other places in Syria.

Iran and Hezbollah provided Assad’s government with military, financial and logistical support during the civil war.