SBS News Australia reports: Australian and Fijian soldiers will be deployed to a disputed region between Syria and Israel on a United Nations peace-keeping mission. The troops are awaiting final U.N. approval before travelling to the disputed territory of Golan Heights.
A Department of Defence spokeswoman confirmed the mission has nothing to do with the United States’ recent withdrawal from north-eastern Syria, on the other side of the country.
“I just met some of the [Australian Defence Force] boys upstairs who are going to be deployed with the Fijians over in Syria,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison told his hand-picked rugby league team in Suva on Friday before they played their Fijian counterparts.
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