Sarraj, Erdogan Stress Need for Peaceful Resolution of Libyan Crisis

Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
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Sarraj, Erdogan Stress Need for Peaceful Resolution of Libyan Crisis

Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)
Turkey's President Erdogan, right, and GNA head, Fayez al-Sarraj, speak prior to their talks in Ankara, Turkey, June 4, 2020. (AP)

Head of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, held talks in Istanbul on Saturday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The two officials stressed the need to resolve the Libyan crisis peacefully and through the United Nations and Berlin conference outcomes.

A statement from the GNA Presidential Council said Sarraj and Erdogan discussed the implementation of the memoranda of understanding signed between the two sides last year.

The agreements tackled military cooperation and the demarcation of maritime borders in the Mediterranean.

They also tackled economic cooperation, investment, efforts to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic and the return of Turkish companies to Libya.



US Offers Some Lebanese Nationals Protected Status Amid War

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
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US Offers Some Lebanese Nationals Protected Status Amid War

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on October 17, 2024, amid the continuing war between Irsael and Hezbollah. (Photo by AFP)

The United States said on Thursday it was authorizing certain Lebanese nationals currently in the country to remain for the next 18 months and apply for work permits, as hostilities flare between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Certain individuals from Lebanon who were already in the US as of Oct. 16 can apply for the so-called Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Israel launched its ground and air campaign in Lebanon to dismantle Hezbollah after a year during which the Iran-backed group fired across the border in support of Hamas in Gaza.