Syria’s army warned on Friday it would renew attacks against a Kurdish-majority district of Aleppo and urged residents to evacuate, state media reported, hours after a ceasefire was announced.
The army said it would target military sites used by Kurdish fighters in the Sheikh Maqsud district, in statements published by state news agency SANA accompanied by maps showing the areas, after Kurdish fighters rejected a call to leave.
In a statement, Kurdish security forces in Aleppo said that “armed factions affiliated with the Damascus government... carried out two attempted incursions” into Sheikh Maqsud “with direct support from tanks and heavy weapons.”
It said its forces repelled the attack, adding that the district “continues to be subjected to ongoing artillery shelling for the fourth consecutive day.”
On the night of January 8-9, Syria’s transitional Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire in Aleppo. Under the agreement, Kurdish forces were to withdraw from the areas of Sheikh Maqsoud, Ashrafiya and Bani Zaid, carrying only personal light weapons. The Syrian army, for its part, guaranteed their safe withdrawal.
However, some SDF fighters refused to surrender their positions and broke the truce by opening fire on government forces, insisting on continuing the fighting.
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