United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken advised Turkey on Wednesday against launching a military operation in Syria, warning that the offensive would "undermine regional stability."
During a joint press conference with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Blinken stressed that the alliance opposes Ankara's plan to conduct a new military operation in Syria. According to the US secretary of state, any new offensive would "jeopardize the efforts that are made to continue to keep ISIS in the box that we put it in."
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's renewed threats to "clean up" two northern Syrian cities of Kurdish armed groups last week, breaking a two-year-long ceasefire.
