At least 35 civilians were killed, according to activists.
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Turkey’s military claimed it had killed 25 Kurdish militants in airstrikes in northern Syria.
Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US-backed Kurdish fighters “with the same determination”.
The Homs Local Council appealed to the United Nations envoy to Syria to negotiate a truce for al-Waer, condemning the government’s “siege policy” that aims to force residents and local fighters to surrender.
Sunday’s operations took Turkey deeper inside Syria, into an area where the Kurdish forces that control much of the border had begun to expand. Turkey on Wednesday sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels retake the key Islamic State-held town of Jarablus and to contai.
Aided by US-led coalition airstrikes, the YPG has been the most effective group so far in restricting the advance of IS in Syria.
Manbij city was recently liberated by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) from militants of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Rebels opposed to the Turkish intervention had earlier on Saturday denied there were Kurdish forces in the area.
In comments televised by CNN Turk, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus referred to Turkey’s fight against “terrorist groups operating in Marea-Jarablus line”, an area running along the border between Bab al-Salama and the town of Jarablus. “We will fight all terrorist groups, including (the Kurdish-led fighters).in all of northeast Aleppo”, said Capt. Abdel-Salam Abdel-Razzak, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki group.
Earlier this month, the Kurdish-led SDF crossed the Euphrates and drove IS militants out of Manbij, a key supply hub south of Jarablus, after a 10-week campaign.
German member of the European Parliament (EP) and the current chairman of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs has said that the PYD should remain on the east bank of the Euphrates river and that they shouldn’t try to take control of areas where Kurds are not of majority.
The U.S. supported Turkey’s call for the Kurdish forces to move back, and Kurdish officials said they withdrew the YPG forces from Manbij.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a brother and sister were killed in the airstrikes that left their bodies badly charred. He said 50 Turkish tanks were taking part.
The NSC also condemned an attack Thursday against the convoy of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Chairman of the Republic People’s Party, the main opposition party in Turkey.
Turkish officials said they will continue their offensive in Syria until there is no longer any “terror” threat to Turkey from its war-torn neighbor.
A Turkish soldier was killed by a Kurdish rocket attack late Saturday, the first such fatality in the offensive, now in its fifth day. Turkey is a leading backer of the rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, but both Ankara and Damascus share concerns over Kurdish ambitions for autonomy.
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The Observatory said government forces on Sunday resumed shelling and air strikes on the rebel-held Waer district of Homs city, killing three people and wounding another 20. At least 54 people died in the attack.
