Overview
- Syria’s Foreign Ministry told state agency SANA that reports about U.S. bases in the country “do not correspond to reality.”
- An earlier Reuters report said the United States was preparing a presence at a Damascus airbase to help implement a future security agreement between Syria and Israel.
- No U.S., Syrian, or Israeli officials had publicly confirmed the reported deployment at the time of the coverage.
- RIA Novosti relayed the Reuters claim earlier on November 6 and later carried the Syrian government’s denial.
- The reported plan was linked to Washington’s role as mediator for the proposed Syria–Israel security arrangement.