Deadly battles break out between Kurdish-led fighters and Syria forces
Al Jazeera
Heavy fighting comes two days after senior SDF leaders met Syrian officials in Damascus for military integration talks.
Syrian government forces engaged in deadly clashes with Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo governorate, with at least four people killed in artillery fire and gun battles.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said a soldier was killed and three injured in an attack by SDF fighters on Tuesday.
Citing the Interior Ministry, state television later reported three civilians, including two women, were killed and others wounded, including two children, in shelling of a residential area that it blamed on the SDF.
“Heavy fighting between government forces and the SDF fighters is continuing and is particularly concentrated in the districts of Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, where the majority of the Kurds live,” Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar Atas reported from Beit Jinn, Syria.
“And now we’re seeing the heavy shelling, mortar shelling, rockets being fired. But for the first time drones are also involved from both parties.”
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