Syria Detains 13 French Officers in Homs, Daily Star Says

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3. A foreign ministry spokesman in France said: “We deny the idea that there are French troops on the..

ground”. A defence spokesman said: “We have no information on this. We neither confirm nor deny it".

Damascus has not commented on the presence of French troops on Syrian soil.

The report claiming that French officers are on the ground came from the Daily Star, a reputable newspaper in Beirut. The Daily Star cites a Damascus-based Pro-Syrian Palestinian source as alleging that the French troops are being held in a field hospital in Homs.

The report did not say whether the French troops were part of the mission to evacuate the reporters, who had been holed up in a safe house for one week following the deadly shelling.

But in an interview this morning with France Info radio, William Daniels, the French photographer who escaped with Edith Bouvier, denied any contact with French forces. “I never saw any French troops during this operation. We were only with Syrians from the (rebel) Free Syrian Army. We owe our escape to them,” he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9122749/Thirteen-French-officers-captured-by-Syrian-Army.html

Should be interesting once the facts are sorted out.