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Azerbaijan, Turkey
MIT redeploys Syrian proxies yet again

By sending its Syrian proxies to support Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, the MIT is over-exploiting a pool already committed on several fronts. Many fighters have become increasingly resistant to Ankara's orders. [...]

Published on 07/10/2020 at 03:30 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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