The Qatari Armed Forces concluded last week the 10-day “Saqr Al Jazeera 1 drill” , in eastern Sudan, in the presence of Major General Hamad Ahmed Al-Nuaimi, Chairman of the Military Institutes and Colleges in Qatar, Lieutenant General Shamseddine Kabbashi, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sudanese Armed Forces Ground Command General Sami Bakhit Mubarak Al-Jatal, the Military Attaché of the State of Qatar to the Sudan as well as a number of Commanders of the military units in Qatar and the Directors of branches and military units of the Sudanese Armed Forces.

According to a press release issued by the Directorate of Moral Guidance that the Qatari Armed Forces participated the exercise with a group of Officers led by Brigadier General Fahad Mubarak Al-Khaylan, Commander of the Officers Training Institute.

Saqr Al Jazeera 1 drill, in which 32 Qatari Officers participated, included training in command, shooting and other military sciences.

In a speech at the end of Saqr Al Jazeera 1 drill, Lieutenant General Shamseddin Kabbashi praised the level of training carried out by the Qatari armed forces and expressed his happiness at the level of military cooperation between the two brotherly countries.

For his part, Lt. Colonel Jassim Al-Kuwari, Director of the Saqr Al Jazeera 1 drill, expressed his delight at the end of the training period and his leading the first Qatari force to participate in the training in East Sudan.

He expressed the hope that the exercise would be a good opening for cooperation in the field of training between the armed forces in the two brotherly countries.