Residents carry their belongings as they flee the Kurdish neighborhood of Ashrafieh, in northern Aleppo, Syria, on Jan. 7, 2026. (Credit: Bakr Alkasem/AFP)
Scenes of residents fleeing on foot or by car, bags in hand, from the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in northern Aleppo, recall the horrors of the civil war that once engulfed Syria’s second city.Since Tuesday, Jan. 6, these areas have witnessed the most violent clashes seen in Aleppo in years, pitting the new authorities, led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, against the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).According to the Syrian Civil Defense, at least 17 people have already been killed. Some context Shelling rocks Syria's Aleppo as clashes intensify between government, Kurdish fighters The fighting comes less than a week after the expiration of the March 10 agreement, brokered by Washington between the interim Syrian president and the head of the SDF, Mazloum Abdi, which called for the...
Scenes of residents fleeing on foot or by car, bags in hand, from the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh in northern Aleppo, recall the horrors of the civil war that once engulfed Syria’s second city.Since Tuesday, Jan. 6, these areas have witnessed the most violent clashes seen in Aleppo in years, pitting the new authorities, led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, against the predominantly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).According to the Syrian Civil Defense, at least 17 people have already been killed. Some context Shelling rocks Syria's Aleppo as clashes intensify between government, Kurdish fighters The fighting comes less than a week after the expiration of the March 10 agreement, brokered by Washington between the interim Syrian president and the head of the SDF, Mazloum Abdi, which called for the...
