According to NTV, after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the operation, Trump called him and said that the United States would withdraw its forces from there.
On August 4, Erdogan announced that Ankara would soon conduct an operation against militants on the east bank of the Euphrates River.
As the Pentagon noted, the US is opposed to "any unilateral invasion of Turkey" in the northern regions of the SAR.
Ankara later reported that Turkey and the United States agreed to establish a focal point for joint operations and a planned security zone in Syria.