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Russia: Turkey has Sent Mercenaries to Libya & Nagorno-Karabakh
[LIBYAREVIEW] The Russian President’s Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, Mikhail Bogdanov, stated that Moscow has raised the issue of  ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...has refuted the reports of Death Eaters being transported to the Caucasus from other countries. Notably, former Armenian Ambassador to Italia, Sergis Ghazarian, confirmed that about 4,000 mercenaries from the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and the Sultan Murad Brigade arrived from Libya and Syria. He added that they are fighting on behalf of Azerbaijani forces. The Wall Street Journal confirmed that hundreds of Syrian fighters linked to Turkey were deployed in the region, and participated in battles. Nagorno-Karabakh is a disputed territory consisting of ethnic Armenians but which was part of Azerbaijan before the Soviet Union’s dissolution. Fighting broke out in February 1988, after the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region announced its withdrawal from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In 1992-1994, tensions boiled over and went kaboom!into large-scale military action for control over the enclave, as well as seven adjacent territories, over which Azerbaijan lost control. Talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement have been ongoing since 1992 under the OSCE Minsk Group, led by its three co-chairs — Russia, La Belle France, and the United States. Posted by: Fred 2020-10-20 |
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