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Janez Lenarcic, EU Commissioner for crisis management, announces that international donors pledged 6.9 billion euros ($7.7 billion) to face the ongoing humanitarian challenges of the nine-year Syrian crisis. SOUNDBITE
US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications, Ben Rhodes, warned Turkey against engaging with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), during the daily press briefing in Washington D.C. on Monday. Rhodes said that although the US support the Turkish effort to rid Jarablus of so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters, they do not however "support and we would oppose efforts to move south and engage in activities against" the SDF.
At the call of thirteen NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International, a group of people gather in front of the Eiffel Tower to call for an immediate "ceasefire" in the Gaza Strip, on the eve of the international humanitarian conference organised by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. IMAGES
Images of Turkish fighter jets taking off from a military base in Diyarbakir to carry out strikes against positions and targets of Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. According to a statement from the Ministry of Defence, "Turkey carried out air strikes this evening at 23:00 (20:00 GMT) in the regions of Tel Rifat, Cizire and Derik in northern Syria and destroyed 30 targets". Since Sunday evening, Ankara has been carrying out a campaign of drone bombings, which left at least nine people dead on Thursday, against PKK and YPG targets in Syria, in retaliation for the attack that wounded two policemen in Ankara on Sunday. IMAGES
Football fans are dancing and enjoying during the afternoon at Taksim Square in Istanbul, a few hours before Manchester City-Inter Milan Champions League final kick-off. IMAGES
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives at the parliament to be sworn in for a third term as president after winning a historic runoff election extending his two-decade rule, as Turkey's economic woes worsen. As Erdogan arrives, soldiers greet it. IMAGES