Kurdistan Region - Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) on Monday said they repelled an “attack” by forces affiliated with the Syrian government in Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of the northern Aleppo province, amid rising tensions and what some have described as a "siege" of the area.
In a statement, the Asayish said their forces on Monday “repelled a widescale attack launched by forces affiliated with the interim government on several fronts” near the Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods in northern Aleppo.
“The attack included the al-Jalaa axis, the al-Jazeera checkpoint, and the Greek Hospital axis, where intense clashes took place. Our forces successfully repelled the assault,” the statement said.
The Kurdish-led forces added that “confrontations also reignited at the al-Lairamoun and al-Shaikhan roundabouts, with clashes still ongoing” at the time of the statement.
Ardahan newspaper
