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Libya’s Haftar must end ‘hostile attitude’ to resolve conflict: Erdogan
Jan 19, 2020 14:11Turkey says Libya's renegade general Khalifa Haftar should end his “hostile attitude” in order to resolve the conflict in the war-wracked North African country.
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Summit on Libyan peace to open in Berlin
Jan 19, 2020 10:06The leaders of Germany, Russia, Turkey, and France are set to meet in Berlin to discuss ways to end the conflict in the North African country of Libya.
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Turkey deploys more militants from Syria to Libya to help protect Tripoli-based GNA: Report
Jan 19, 2020 04:50Roughly 2,000 members of Turkish-backed Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria have reportedly arrived in Libya to fight on the battlefields in support of the embattled Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA).
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Somalia car bomb blast targets Turkish contractors north of Mogadishu
Jan 19, 2020 04:11A car bomb targeting a group of Turkish contractors exploded on Saturday in Afgoye, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, police said.
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Europe to face terror threat if Tripoli-based government falls: Erdogan
Jan 18, 2020 09:56Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Europe it could face new threats from terrorist organizations if Libya's UN-recognized government in Tripoli were to fall.
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Iran ready to give firm response to any act of adventurism: Defense minister
Jan 17, 2020 10:46Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami says the country's Armed Forces are ready to give a strong response to any act of adventurism.
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Turkey starting troop deployment to Libya, President Erdogan says
Jan 17, 2020 05:21President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is starting deployment of troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and in line with agreements relating to maritime border demarcation and enhanced security cooperation.
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Bomb attack kills ten in Turkish-controlled northern Syria town
Jan 17, 2020 05:00Nearly a dozen people have lost their lives when a powerful car bomb explosion ripped through a northern Syrian border town seized by Turkish military forces and their allied militants in the aftermath of a cross-border incursion against militants of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
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Iran not interested in escalation of tensions: Gen. Baqeri
Jan 16, 2020 11:00Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri says the Islamic Republic is not interested in escalation of tensions in the region, but is ready to give a crushing response to any act of aggression.
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Turkey ‘not pessimistic’ about ceasefire in Libya but wary of Haftar
Jan 16, 2020 04:49Turkey says it is not pessimistic about the prospect of a ceasefire in Libya, even after the collapse of peace talks in Moscow, but accuses renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar of seeking continued conflict.