Printed On 12 Jan 2026
Residents of a Kurdish neighbourhood in Syria’s second-largest metropolis, Aleppo, have handed via authorities checkpoints to seek out blackened partitions, burned-out automobiles and debris-strewn streets.
They returned residence on Sunday after days of lethal clashes.
The preventing, which erupted in Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods on Tuesday after the federal government and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the principle Kurdish-led drive 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 response to Syrian authorities.
The battles have been essentially 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 mentioned it was making an attempt to ship extra convoys to the neighbourhoods with meals, gasoline, blankets and different urgently wanted provides.
