French President Emmanuel Macron lambastes his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for sending warships and “mercenaries” to crisis-hit Libya.

Hezbollah says Friday’s million-strong march in the Iraqi capital Baghdad well demonstrated the Iraqi nation’s outright rejection of US occupation.

Iraq’s President Barham Salih and his US counterpart Donald Trump have discussed reducing the American troop presence in the war-battered country.

Turkey says Khalifa Haftar, the commander of rebel militia in Libya, must submit to international calls for a political solution to the armed conflict in the North African country.

“At the moment we aren’t sending military forces, we are only sending a cadre of trainers and advisers.”

Germany will host a peace conference under the auspices of the UN in Berlin on Sunday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is starting deployment of troops to Libya in support of the UN-backed government in Tripoli.

The German foreign minister says Libya’s Khalifa Haftar is committed to the ongoing truce and will participate in Berlin peace talks.

Turkey 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.

The NATO chief says enabling local forces to fight terrorism is preferred over troop deployment by the military alliance.