{"id":60080,"date":"2020-01-28T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T07:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60080"},"modified":"2020-01-28T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T07:23:46","slug":"us-pres-trump-discusses-syria-libya-with-turkeys-pres-erdogan-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60080","title":{"rendered":"US Pres Trump discusses Syria, Libya with Turkey&#8217;s Pres Erdogan &#8211; White House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump discussed developments in Syria and Libya in a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, a White House spokesman said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The two leaders discussed the need to eliminate foreign interference and maintain the ceasefire in Libya. The leaders agreed that the violence being carried out in Idlib, Syria must stop,&#8221; White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A renewed drive by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to recapture rebel-held Idlib province in Syria&#8217;s northwest sparked a fresh exodus of many thousands of civilians toward Turkey&#8217;s border on Monday amid heavy air strikes, aid workers and witnesses said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Libya, military commander Khalifa Haftar moved forces on Sunday toward the city of Misrata, which is allied to the country&#8217;s internationally recognized government, officials and residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase in fighting came a week after Turkey, which backs the government in Tripoli, and the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Russia, which back Haftar, agreed with Western powers at a summit in Berlin to push for a lasting ceasefire and uphold an arms embargo. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump discussed developments in Syria and Libya in a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, a White House spokesman said on Twitter. &#8220;The two leaders discussed the need to eliminate foreign interference and maintain the ceasefire in Libya. The leaders agreed that the violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}