While in May 2024 there have been several articles about the arrival of these Syrian mercenaries in Niger,[5] Saudi-funded Al-Hadath television news reported on their arrival on January 27, 2024. [7]This is the third time outside Syria that Turkey has deployed its proxy Syrian mercenaries. The first time was in the Libyan Civil War, in 2019, where Turkey's Syrian mercenaries at times confronted Syrian mercenaries contracted by Russia. Although Turkey talks much about having done this in Syria, the reality is that Turkey's Syrian Islamist fighters were mostly used against the Syrian Kurds of the SDF/YPG. There is, to date, no footage of these Syrian fighters in Niger.

Source: The Guardian May 17, 2024 15:09 UTC