Syria: UN Security Council To Hold Closed Meeting

Turkey launched an operation into northern Syria last week (Picture: PA).

The UN Security Council will hold a closed meeting on the situation in northeast Syria following Turkey's offensive into the country's north.

Germany requested the Wednesday meeting on behalf of the five council nations that are members of the European Union, the diplomats said Tuesday.

The other EU council members are France, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Poland.

The current Security Council president, South Africa's UN Ambassador Jerry Matjila, told reporters that a meeting had been requested and "all council members are very concerned" about the situation on the ground.

"Everybody hopes that... we can do something to bring back the parties to the peace process," Mr Matjila said.

Kelly Craft, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters as she headed into the council meeting that the United States is "deeply concerned" that Russian troops are patrolling between Syrian and Turkish troops.