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While not directly claiming responsibility for the drone strike, Turkey claimed that the strike showed some KRG security members were in cooperation with the PKK.

The Pentagon had criticized Türkiye for "directly threatening the safety of US personnel. Akar denied the claims of airstrikes near a US observation point.

As Türkiye continues shelling northern Syria, the president says a ground offensive is imminent. The Pentagon, meanwhile, said the attacks directly threatened the safety of US personnel.

Interior Minister Soylu hosted Germany's Nancy Fraeser in Ankara.

The strikes were carried out in retaliation to last week's bomb attack in İstanbul, the government said. Dozens of people, including Syrian government soldiers and SDF fighters, as well as a journalist, were reportedly killed in the raids.

Several soldiers and SDF members were killed and wounded in the attacks, according to reports.

"Such a move would be a direct violation of Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the spokesperson of Russia's Foreign Ministry has said.

Turkey's airstrikes with fighter jets and drones targeted several locations in Iraq's Kurdistan region and a town in SDF-held areas in Syria's north.