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A Saudi general has revealed that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi proposed sending 40,000 Egyptian ground forces to Yemen to fight with the Saudi-led Arab coalition against the Houthi revolutionaries.
Riyadh has been reportedly frustrated by Cairo's unwillingness to send ground troops to join the Saudi-led coalition fighting the revolutionaries in Yemen.
"His excellency Sisi offered Saudi Arabia and the coalition to send ground troops," Ahmed Asiri told Al Arabiya.
"The Egyptian military is currently taking part with naval and aerial forces but at that time we were talking about around 30 to 40 thousand ground troops," the spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition went on to say.
Sisi met Saudi King Salman last month on the sidelines of the Arab League summit in Jordan, breaking the ice after months of tensions between the longtime allies.
The Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes in Yemen since March 2015.
The conflict in Yemen pits the regime of former president Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi backed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthi revolutionaries.
The coalition comprises the Gulf monarchies Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates along with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan.
The Sudanese army said on Tuesday that five of its troops have been killed while fighting for the Saudi-led coalition.
The army did not specify when the troops were killed, but Sudan has deployed hundreds of soldiers as part of the coalition that is fighting the Houthis in a war which the United Nations says has already left around 10,000 people dead and 42,500 wounded.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
