(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Cuba's government has denied reports circulated on social media that it has sent troops to Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
Havana's foreign ministry official Gerardo Penalver "categorically denies and refutes the irresponsible and unfounded information regarding the supposed presence of Cuban troops in the Syrian Arab Republic," a government statement said.
The University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies on Tuesday issued what it called unconfirmed reports from an unspecified source that Cuban troops had been spotted in Syria "in support of Syria's Assad and Russian involvement in that country." Fox News echoed the institute's report on Wednesday, citing an unnamed U.S. official who "confirmed" it. The story then circulated in social media.
On Thursday, a White House spokesman said the US government had seen no evidence to indicate the reports were true.
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