Just a few hours after the suicide attack in Ankara that happened on Sunday (9 Mizan), the Turkish army attacked the positions of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

According to a spokesman from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey has closed its airspace to planes taking off from and landing in Iraq’s northern city of Sulaimaniyah, citing what it said was the heightened presence of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters there.

The White House is planning to keep 500 US troops in parts of northeastern Syria to focus on guarding oil fields there and sending more battle tanks to protect them, according to a report.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has emphasized his complete refusal of any invasion of Syrian land under any pretext, noting that Syria will continue to fight terrorism by all legitimate means.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says all of the American troops pulling out of northeastern Syria will move to western Iraq.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has warned against placing trust in the United States, emphasizing that Washington cannot be trusted at all as it betrays own allies in a surreptitious way and does not stand committed to any agreement.

US President Donald Trump says the United States’ military engagement in the Middle East is the "worst decision ever made” in US history.

Turkey has launched a joint operation with Iran against PKK on Turkey’s eastern border, Turkish interior minister said on Monday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired back at his US counterpart Donald Trump, who recently threatened Ankara with sanctions unless it freed a jailed American pastor.