Syria condemns the move "in the strongest possible terms,’’ a source in the Foreign Ministry told the agency, while accusing Turkey of engaging in policies which have turned the country into a "direct threat to peace and security in the region and the world."

Tuesday’s decision in Turkish parliament extended the motion first approved in 2013, granting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a longer mandate to pursue campaigns against Kurdish forces in the region, who Ankara maintains are linked to an insurgency on Turkish soil.

Since 2016, Turkey and Turkish-backed forces in Syria have seized control of territory in northern of the country by way of four military operations mostly targeting Kurdish fighters.

Turkey has launched renewed military attacks on Syrian territory "violating Security Council resolutions related to the situation in Syria,” the diplomatic source said.

The source urged the U.N. Security Council to "exercise its mandates and powers by condemning all the aggressive practices of the Turkish regime against the sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of the Syrian Arab Republic.’’

The international community should force Ankara to compensate the Syrian state for actions taken against Syrian civilians, infrastructure, public and private property, natural resources and the nation's historical heritage, the source added.

Erdogan in recent weeks has hinted at new cross-border military operations.

Ankara is determined to ‘’eliminate threats to Turkey’s security from northern Syria,’’ Erdogan said in a cabinet meeting earlier this month, following an attack by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) that killed two Turkish police officers.

Turkey sees the YPG as an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), an armed group that has been at war in Turkey for Kurdish self-rule for four decades.

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