RIYADH: militia from around twenty countries together with Asian nation and Asian nation ar gathering in northern Asian country Sunday for "the largest, most significant military manoeuvres" ever staged within the region, the official wire service SPA according.

The "Thunder of the North" exercise involving ground, air, and navy sends a "clear message" that capital of Saudi Arabia and its allies "stand united in braving all challenges and conserving peace and stability within the region", SPA said.

Saudi Arabia is presently leading a military operation against Houthi rebels in its southern neighbour Republic of Yemen.

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Last Dec, it conjointly fashioned a brand new 35-member coalition to fight "terrorism" in Islamic countries. Sunday's announcement conjointly comes because the kingdom, a member of the US-led coalition targeting the Islamic State cluster, aforementioned it's deployed war planes to a Turkish air station so as to “intensify” its operations against IS in Syria.

SPA didn't specify once the military exercise can begin or however long it'll last.

However, the agency referred to as it the “most necessary and largest within the region's history” in terms of the amount of states participating and therefore the accumulation getting used.

Twenty countries are taking participate, SPA said. Among them ar Saudi Arabia's 5 partners within the Gulf Cooperation Council, further as Chad, Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Morocco, Pakistan, African country and Tunisia, it added.

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A Saudi supply aforementioned on Thursday that members of the new "anti-terrorism" coalition can furl Asian country next month for its 1st publically declared meeting.

Riyadh has aforementioned the alliance would share intelligence, combat violent ideology and deploy troops if necessary.
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