https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2020/03/mil-200301-presstv04.htm
The Marine Traffic website, a vessel-tracking and maritime information portal, said in a report that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower crossed through the Strait of Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday night.
Since 2014, Libya has been divided between the internationally-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) based in the capital Tripoli and a camp in the eastern city of Tobruk, supported militarily by militias and rebel forces allied with renegade general Khalifa Haftar.
Haftar launched his offensive to seize Tripoli last April but after rapid advances his forces stalled on the edges of the capital. The fighting has so far left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced some 140,000 others, according to the United Nations.
Syria, gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011, launched a counter-terrorism offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib and neighboring areas last December after its troops came under increasing militant attacks.
Turkey has deployed massive troops and military equipment in recent weeks to stop Syrian troops from ousting terrorists.
Under a deal reached between Turkey and Russia in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in September 2018, Ankara is required to remove Takfiri terrorists from the embattled province. But, more than a year into the Sochi deal, foreign-backed terrorists rule supreme in Idlib in close proximity to the Turkish troops.
Idlib, the last militant bastion in the nine-year war, is home to several anti-Damascus militant outfits that receive Turkey's support in their persisting militancy against the Syrian government.
tomatoturk is about to lose bigly