Waved sanctions on Ankara .. The United States is considering mediation between Turkey and Kurdish militants

US President Donald Trump has hinted that his administration could mediate between Turkey and Kurdish militants it is fighting in a military operation launched two days ago in northeastern Syria called Operation Spring of Peace.

Trump said in a tweet on Twitter that Washington has three options, either sending thousands of troops to Syria, or a "financial blow" to Turkey and the imposition of sanctions, or mediate between them and Kurdish militants.

He added that Turkey has been fighting a war with the Kurds for two hundred years, and that there are no US troops in Syria under Turkish attacks, stressing that he does not believe that the American people want to return US troops to northern Syria.

In the same vein, a senior US official said Thursday that Trump commissioned US diplomats to broker a ceasefire between the Turkish army and Kurdish militants.

The US State Department official said that Trump "tasked us to try to find common ground between the two sides, and whether a ceasefire is possible, and that is what we are doing," without giving further details.

He added that the Turkish military operation in Syria did not exceed the red line laid by the US president for the Turks, which he said includes "ethnic cleansing" as well as "indiscriminate aerial or ground bombardment of civilians."

He said the United States would impose sanctions on Turkey if it was involved in any "inhumane and disproportionate" movements against civilians during its operation in northeastern Syria, an operation Ankara said was aimed at establishing a "safe zone" 30 kilometers away from the guerrillas. Kurds, returning a large chunk of the 3.6 million Syrians who took refuge in its territory.

The Turkish military operation, which involved factions of the Syrian armed opposition, about 70 thousand people to the displacement towards the cities of Hasaka and Raqqa and their environs, according to the United Nations.

In a joint statement on Thursday, 14 humanitarian and relief organizations warned of a new humanitarian crisis in northeastern Syria.

In turn, dozens of Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday that they will put a resolution to impose sanctions on Turkey in response to its military operation.

"President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan and his regime must face serious consequences because of the merciless attack on our Kurdish allies in northern Syria," Republican Representative Liz Cheney said in a statement.