Printed On 12 Jan 2026
Residents of a Kurdish neighbourhood in Syria’s second-largest metropolis, Aleppo, have handed by authorities checkpoints to search out blackened partitions, burned-out autos and debris-strewn streets.
They returned dwelling on Sunday after days of lethal clashes.
The combating, which erupted in Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods on Tuesday after the federal government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the primary Kurdish-led power within the nation, didn’t make progress on plans to combine the SDF into the nationwide military, killed dozens of individuals and displaced some 155,000, in line with Syrian authorities.
The battles have been probably the most intense for the reason that fall of then-President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
By Sunday, the federal government had taken full management of the 2 areas, having agreed to switch SDF fighters from the districts to Kurdish autonomous areas within the nation’s northeast.
The United Nations stated it was attempting to ship extra convoys to the neighbourhoods with meals, gasoline, blankets and different urgently wanted provides.
