Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the “Peace Spring” action on Wednesday after President Trump announced that the United States will withdraw from the region. It is believed that this has dealt a blow to the US-backed Kurdish forces there. Erdogan said the mission was to “eliminate the terrorist threat to Turkey and lead to the establishment of a safe area to promote the return of Syrian refugees.”

Activists and a war monitor said that at least seven civilians have been killed in a Turkish strike in northeastern Syria since the Syrian attack on Wednesday morning.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that if the country does not act in the most ‘humane way’, he will do “far more than sanctions” to Turkey, and he hopes that Erdogan can act rationally. When asked what would happen if Erdogan wiped out the Kurds, Trump threatened to “eliminate” the Turkish economy and said he had done so.

The Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, with the help of the United States in the region, guarded thousands of captured ISIS fighters.

The president said that the terrorists arrested were “the real bad guys and should return to Europe.”

Earlier Wednesday, Trump warned Turkey that the initial offense was a “bad idea.”

Trump said in a statement in the White House: “The United States does not approve of the attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this action is a bad idea.” “Turkey is committed to protecting civilians and protecting religious minorities, including Christians.” To ensure that there is no humanitarian crisis, we will abide by this commitment.”

A spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces led by Kurdish said on Wednesday that it “started air strikes against civilian areas” and caused “a huge panic among the people of the region.”

US military officials told Fox News that after the Kurds demanded that the US military provide air support, the president ordered the US military not to participate in the strike.

According to Bloomberg News, a group of Turkish troops entered the northeastern part of Syria for the first time on Wednesday morning, close to Tal Abiad and Ras Al Ain. According to the Turkish state-run Anadolu News Agency, the artillery units subsequently shelled suspicious Syrian Kurdish targets in Talabad, while two mortar shells attacked the Turkish border town of Cheran Pinar.

Trump said: “We have said to various countries, we hope that you will bring back your people. No one wants them, they are very bad.” He added, “Maybe if they are not, the Kurds in Turkey will solve” . Fighting with ISIS

The president said that if the fighters escape, they will “return to Europe.”

Trump said that this situation is “unfair” for the United States, and entering the Middle East is “the most serious mistake in the history of the United States.”

He said: “We are doing [Europe, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria] work that should be done. […] We are 7,000 miles apart.

President Trump announced on Sunday that the United States will withdraw US troops from northern Syria, a move that puts the US-backed Kurdish forces (long-term allies fighting Syria and ISIS) at risk. Ankara believes that the Syrian Kurdish forces are terrorists and are allied with the Kurdish uprisings in Turkey.

The seven-story building in the coastal city of Sihanoukville was under works when it suddenly collapsed around 4 a.m. on Saturday. Construction crews were also using the building as housing, spending nights on the second floor of the building. One worker said he estimates there were approximately 60 people in the building at the time of its collapse, but the Cambodian Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training said there were just 30.

“All the workers were asleep,” said 31-year-old Nhor Chandeun, who was sleeping with his wife in the building when it began to crumble. “A moment before the building collapsed it was vibrating and then it was falling down. But it was too quick to escape.”

Chandeun is now in the hospital after being trapped in the rubble for 12 hours before rescuers found them.

“My wife and I kept calling for help,” he said. “We were shouting and shouting but there was no sound replying to us and we presumed that we would die under the rubble.”

Police have apprehended four Chinese nationals for questioning in connection to the building’s collapse, although the cause of the disaster is yet unclear. The building is owned by a Chinese investor who planned to turn it into a condominium, according to Yun Min, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Sunday that he would be traveling to Sihanoukville to oversee the rescue efforts. Bodies were still being recovered on Sunday evening.

A number of Southeast Asian leaders have shown their condolences to Cambodia. The 10-nation regional bloc comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has declared a new project for the region to respond better to disasters and emergencies.