President Emmanuel Macron ordered French forces to the Eastern Mediterranean to provide military assistance to Greece, raising the stakes in France’s growing regional confrontation against an increasingly assertive Turkey.

France’s latest move in the region follows Mr. Macron’s trip last week to Beirut in the wake of an explosion that devastated the city.

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