US EditionJournalists Detained, Barred in Syria as Government Regains Aleppo Areas
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The calm returned to Aleppo, Syria, after the intense clashes between the government forces and the Kurdish fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces who had been cut off in two Kurdish neighbourhoods of the city, before the army regained control of the city. Most of the fighting took place in the one of Sheikh-Maqsoud who began to reopen its doors, filtered out by the authorities who distinguished and recovered the last weapons.
New struggles between the Syrian army and Kurdish units (SDF) clearly show that the crucial issue of military integration remains unresolved.
Journalists detained, barred in Syria as government regains Aleppo areas
Sulaymaniyah, January 12, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern after Syrian government forces detained three journalists and imposed restrictions on independent reporting in the Aleppo neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah following the government’s recapture of the areas following clashes with Kurdish units affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces. “We are deeply troubled by the recent press violations in A…
Some of the 155,000 civilians displaced from the neighbourhoods of Ashrafiyeh and Sheikh Maksud of Aleppo began returning home Monday after six days of fighting between the central government forces and the Kurdish militias. On Sunday an agreement had been reached through the United States and Turkey, according to which militiamen fighting against the Damascus troops were to leave these Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods in the second Syrian city a…
The tension has risen by a step between the government, which holds the majority of the country, and the Syrian Democratic Forces, which control the north-east. The latter have lost their basion of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafié in the great city of Aleppo
France deplores the resumption of the clashes in Aleppo in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood. It calls on the parties to return immediately to the ceasefire, to facilitate access to humanitarian aid and to preserve the population. France supports the proposals to ensure the protection of all civilians in Aleppo, as the Syrian government has committed itself to it, and to allow a withdrawal worthy of the combatants. It will continue to mobilize wi…
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