Internal security forces deployed in the Aleppo's city Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood after its liberation from the SDF militia, as part of measures aimed at establishing security and protecting civilians.
This deployment comes within the framework of maintaining stability, securing public and private property, and creating conditions for the gradual return of normal life to the neighborhood.
Early on Saturday, the Syrian army has combed through Sheikh Maksoud district, it said on Saturday, signaling it had seized the area from Kurdish fighters by force after a temporary ceasefire failed to end to days of deadly fighting.
Syria’s army said it had finished combing through the district, but that some Kurdish fighters were still in hiding. In a written statement, Kurdish forces denied the government had captured Sheikh Maksoud and said they were still resisting. Reuters reporters in the city did not hear the sound of clashes.
The takeover of Sheikh Maksoud by the army would end Kurdish control over pockets of Aleppo held by Kurdish forces since Syria’s war erupted in 2011. Kurdish forces still hold large parts of Syria’s northeast, where they run a semi-autonomous zone.
They have resisted efforts to integrate into Syria’s new government. With negotiations stalled, fighting erupted in Aleppo on Tuesday, leaving at least nine civilians dead and forcing more than 140,000 to flee.
US envoy Tom Barrack said in a statement on X posted on Saturday that he had met with Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi in Amman to consolidate a ceasefire and ensure the Kurdish forces’ “peaceful withdrawal from Aleppo.”
Zaman Al Wasl
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