ANKARA — A private passenger jet crashed Tuesday shortly after departing Ankara’s Esenboga International Airport, killing eight people, including Libya’s army chief, Mohammed Ali Al Haddad, and four other Libyan army officials onboard.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah confirmed the death of Haddad and his accompanying delegation in a statement on X. Dbeibah described the crash as a “great loss to the homeland.”

The prime minister identified the four others killed in the crash as Al-Fitouri Grebeel, chief of staff of the ground forces; Mahmoud........

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