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Macron urges end to deployment of pro-Turkish Syrian fighters to Libya

Voicing his "acute concerns over the arrival of Syrian and foreign fighters in the city of Tripoli". Ankara ha
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  • Voicing his "acute concerns over the arrival of Syrian and foreign fighters in the city of Tripoli".
  • Ankara has been accused of sending hundreds of Syrian fighters into Tripoli to back up Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognised government.

Voicing his "acute concerns over the arrival of Syrian and foreign fighters in the city of Tripoli", Macron told a Berlin summit on Libya that "that must end".

Ankara has been accused of sending hundreds of Syrian fighters into Tripoli to back up Fayez al-Sarraj's UN-recognised government while Moscow has allegedly deployed mercenaries to lend support to strongman Khalifa Haftar.