“We are in a very serious situation. evidences of crimes have been provided”, he said in a speech in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, near Paris.
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The head of the United Nations humanitarian aid efforts for Syria says the United Nations has received word from Russian Federation that it supports a 48-hour pause in fighting in Aleppo so aid can be delivered.
“We are ready to supply greater numbers, depending on the nature of the battle”, he said.
Turkish warplanes destroyed an ammunition store south of the Syrian frontier town of Jarablus on Saturday, military sources told Reuters after a group in the region allied to a Kurdish-backed force said its positions had been targeted.
Germany has Tornado reconnaissance jets and refueling planes at Incirlik.
The operation is in line with the country’s right to self-defense borne out of global treaties and a mandate given to Turkey’s armed forces by the Turkish parliament in 2014, which was extended for another year in September 2015.
The SDF crossed the Euphrates river in order to attack Manbij.
It was unclear Thursday whether Turkey-backed rebels who seized Jarablus Wednesday would move against ISIS-held towns of nearby Kurdish-controlled areas, including the town of Manbij, which Kurdish forces retook from ISIS earlier this month.
According to Turkish ministry officials, Kerry and Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the Turkish military operation.
Al-Moallem’s visit comes a day after Turkey sent ground forces across the border into Syria to take a key Islamic State stronghold, a development that Damascus denounced as a “blatant violation” of Syrian sovereignty.
Turkish forces will remain in Syria for as long as it takes to cleanse the border of Islamic State and other militants, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Friday, after a truck bombing by Kurdish insurgents killed at least 11 police officers.
Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member and part of the US -led coalition against Islamic State, has seen a series of deadly bombings this year blamed on the radical Islamists. Manbij lies west of the Euphrates about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Jarablus, and Ankara has demanded the Kurds hand it over to Syrian rebels and withdraw.
Isik says Ankara and the United States have agreed the Kurdish Syrian forces would pull out of the northern area around Jarablus “within two weeks”. He spoke to the private NTV television.
“For now, the withdrawal hasn’t fully taken place. We are waiting for it and following it”. Though the US backs Syrian Kurds, Biden said they “must move back across the Euphrates River”.
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Turkey’s surprise incursion Wednesday to capture the town of Jarablus was a dramatic escalation of Turkey’s role in Syria’s war. But Syrian Kurds, who control much of the border with Turkey, are considered terrorists by Turkey, yet are also one of the U.S.’s most potent surrogates in the fight against ISIS.
