A man carrying a lamb during the evacuation of the Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafieh in Aleppo on Jan. 7, 2026. (Credit: Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
The Syrian army began shelling Aleppo's Kurdish-majority neighborhoods on Wednesday, after the deadline given for civilians to leave the area had passed, an AFP correspondent said.
The military had declared the city's Kurdish-controlled districts "closed military zones" from 3 p.m. (12 p.m. GMT), while creating "two safe humanitarian crossings" through which thousands of civilians had fled before the deadline, according to AFP correspondents.
The Syrian army began shelling Aleppo's Kurdish-majority neighborhoods on Wednesday, after the deadline given for civilians to leave the area had passed, an AFP correspondent said.
The military had declared the city's Kurdish-controlled districts "closed military zones" from 3 p.m. (12 p.m. GMT), while creating "two safe humanitarian crossings" through which thousands of civilians had fled before the deadline, according to AFP correspondents.
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