DAMASCUS: Following days of fatal fighting with Kurdish fighters, Syria’s defense ministry declared a truce in a number of Aleppo areas on Friday. The Ministry of Defense announces… a ceasefire in the vicinity of the Sheikh Maqsoud, Alashrafieh, and Bani Zeid neighborhoods of Aleppo, effective from 3:00 am, to prevent any slide toward a new military escalation within residential neighborhoods,” the ministry said in a statement.
At least 21 people have been killed in several days of combat between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led SDF army in Aleppo. As implementation of a plan to integrate the Kurds’ military and administration into the government slows, both parties have traded blame over who initiated the violence on Tuesday.At least 21 people have died in several days of combat between Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led SDF army in Aleppo.
Regional tensions between Israel, which denounced what it described as attacks against the Kurds, and Damascus ally Turkiye have also been brought to light by the worst bloodshed in Aleppo since Syria’s Islamist government came to power.
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