Syrian soldier on photograph after clashes with SDF in Aleppo, Syria, 22 December 2025. © Getty Images / NurPhoto / Mohammad Daher
In Aleppo, in the north of Syria, there were bloody clashes between Damascus government troops and the Kurds-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Both sides blame each another for this incident.
At least 2 civilians were killed in the fighting and respective were injured, reported the state press agency SANA, citing city wellness services. The Syrian Interior Ministry blamed the SDF incident, claiming that the militants of this group “have committed treason” to Damascus-controlled safety forces.
On Monday, SDF units allegedly withdrew from respective checkpoints around the districts of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud, which they jointly managed with government troops.
According to the Ministry of Interior, militants subsequently attacked these checkpoints as well as surrounding housing estates.
The SDF powerfully rejected these accusations, claiming that the militia had long been ‘has transferred its positions to the interior safety Forces in accordance with the Agreement of 1 April’.
The group blamed the incident ‘broken fractions linked to the Government of Damascus’, Accusing them of “siege’ neighborhoods for at least 4 months.
The Syrian Government, which arose after the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad at the end of last year, concluded an agreement in April with the local council of Kurdish districts of Aleppo.
These areas were transferred to Damascus while maintaining a certain degree of autonomy.
A separate agreement provided that Kurdish civilian and military structures would be incorporated into the central government by the end of 2025.
However, its implementation is deadlocked and SDF continues to control about a 4th of Syria's territory.
In the last fewer months, there have been many clashes across the country between forces associated with Damascus and SDF militias.
The last incidental occurred a fewer hours after a visit to Damascus by Turkish abroad minister Hakan Fidan, who accused the SDF of not being active in the agreement and called on them to “Stops being an obstacle to Syria’s stability, unity and prosperity.”
Over the past fewer years Turkey has repeatedly carried out cross-border military operations against Kurds-led militias in Syria, treating SDF as a faction of the Kurdistan Working organization (PKK), which Ankara considers to be a terrorist group.
At the same time, the SDF maintained close relations with the US, acting as Washington's closest ally in a war-torn country.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/629895-syria-aleppo-deadly-clashes/
