Syria's Foreign Ministry has denied a report detailing US plans to establish a military presence at a base in Damascus.
Reuters reported this week that Washington was preparing for the move to help enable a security pact it is brokering between Syria and Israel. Six sources were quoted in the report.
The airbase in the capital would sit at the gateway to southern parts of the country expected to make up a demilitarised zone as part of a US-mediated non-aggression pact between Israel and Syria, Reuters said.
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