GENEVA (Sputnik) – Militias from North Korea are fighting alongside the Syrian army in Syria, a member of the Syrian opposition’s High Negotiations Committee claimed Tuesday.
"There are two groups [of militias] from North Korea," head of the HNC delegation to the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva Asaad Zoubi told a briefing, listing foreign supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
According to Zoubi, those units are "lethally dangerous."
Nationals of Iraq and Afghanistan are also fighting on Assad’s side, the official claimed.
Geneva currently hosts a fresh round of the UN-brokered talks aimed at putting an end to the devastating five-year civil war in Syria.
Damascus is participating in the negotiations along with three Syrian opposition delegations: the Riyadh-backed High Negotiations Committee, a delegation formed after Moscow and Cairo rounds of Syrian talks and a delegation formed at the Hmeimim air facility in Syria.
