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UN approves advance team for Libya for cease-fire monitoring

The U.N. Security Council requested the secretary-general on Thursday to swiftly deploy an advance team to Libya as a first step to sending monitors to observe an October cease-fire between the country’s warring parties. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recommended in late December that international monitors be deployed to Libya, under a …

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Iran says ‘best response’ for US forces to leave Iraq

Officials in Tehran renewed calls for an end to the American military presence in neighboring Iraq as a response to the US killing of Iran’s top commander Qasem Soleimani. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the ouster of American forces from neighboring Iraq would be “the best response” to …

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Turkey, proxy fighters accused of ‘illegally transferring’ Syrians for prosecution

Human Rights Watch documented the transfer of at least 63 Syrians to Turkey for prosecution on charges including membership in a terrorist group. Turkey and its proxy forces in Syria have arrested and forcibly transferred dozens of Syrians to Turkey to face trial under the “most dubious and vaguest of …

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