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The presidents of Russia and Turkey said they reached agreement on a cease-fire to begin at midnight Thursday.

Sailors aboard the USS Ross this week saved three mariners from a burning Turkish civilian vessel near the Black Sea.

The fighters were among at least eight Hezbollah members who died in Turkish attacks.

NATO called on Syria and Russia to halt their airstrikes following the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in northeastern Syria.

Russian air strikes has forced nearly one million civilians to flee northwest Syria.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday accused Turkey of breaching an agreement to halt foreign interference in Libya.

Libya has been divided between two competing governments since 2015.

The Tripoli-based government of Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj has faced an offensive by the rival regime in the east.

In recent years, some Turkish officials have cited Ottoman history to reassert Turkish rights across the Mediterranean.

It's perhaps unsurprising that the dominant themes have been turnover and conflict -- internal as well as external.