Arab League to meet in Cairo on Saturday as Turkey invades Syria: Arab foreign ministers will meet in Cairo on Saturday to discuss Turkey’s invasion of Syria following calls from Egypt for an emergency meeting, the Arab League said in a statement picked up by Reuters. A source told Gulf News that ministers will explore ways to protect Syria’s sovereignty.

Egypt isn’t happy: Egypt’s Foreign Ministry yesterday condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Turkey’s invasion of north-east Syria and called for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the crisis. In its statement the Foreign Ministry called the operation a “blatant and unacceptable attack” on Syria’s sovereignty, and accused Ankara of “demographic engineering.” President Abdel Fattah El Sisi discussed the offensive with Iraqi President Barham Salih on the phone last night, according to an Ittihadiya statement.

Erdogan clearly hasn’t read ‘How to Win Friends…’: The Turkish military launched airstrikes and artillery fire against Kurdish targets in Syria and began a ground invasion yesterday. The offensive came just two days after US President Donald Trump announced that US forces in Syria would stand aside and allow Turkey to take control of Syrian territory controlled by Kurdish militia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the operation is intended to wipe out a so-called “terror corridor” on the country’s southern border. "It constitutes an unacceptable attack on the sovereignty of an Arab member state of the League," Reuters quoted Arab League Assistant Secretary General Hossam Zaki as saying. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the EU denounced the incursion, while the Trump Administration tried to distance itself from events after Republican lawmakers heavily criticized his decision to pull out from Syria.

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