The Russian military says it has been surprised by Turkey’s likely plan to conduct yet another military operation in northern Syria.

International organizations and world states have censured US policy reversal on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Turkey has threatened to launch another operation in northeastern Syria if the area is not cleared of Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG).

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called on Germany to extradite the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led SDF forces in Syria.

Turkey has accused France and Israel of seeking to establish “a terrorist state” in Syria where they are reportedly assisting Kurdish separatists in the Arab country's north.

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey does not want to see a single Kurdish militant left in the planned "safe zone" in northern Syria at the end of a fragile ceasefire in the region.

Turkey says it has doubts whether joint efforts with the United States to form a so-called safe zone in northeast Syria will ever produce the expected results.

Erdoan says Turkey has no choice but to act alone given too little progress made by the United States in forming a purported safe zone in northeastern Syria.

The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to send around 150 soldiers to northeastern Syria to conduct joint patrols with Turkish troops.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Washington is stalling efforts to create a “safe zone” in northeast Syria, and that Ankara was ready to act on its own to push back Kurdish YPG militants.