Syrian army sends troops to rural Aleppo to stop any SDF attempt to regroup

The SDF denies the Syrian Ministry of Defence’s accusations that it had deployed subject forces to the Deir Hafer beforehand successful the eastbound Aleppo countryside.

The Syrian service has sent reinforcements to agrarian eastbound Aleppo, aft observing the accomplishment of much Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) forces successful the area, pursuing days of deadly battles wrong the metropolis itself and the departure of the SDF.

The authoritative quality bureau SANA broadcast footage connected Monday of Syrian service troops heading towards the deployment enactment eastbound of Aleppo.

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SANA quoted the Syrian Army Operations Authority arsenic saying: “We person observed the accomplishment of much equipped groups to the deployment points of the SDF organisation successful the eastbound Aleppo countryside adjacent Maskana and Deir Hafer.”

The bureau added: “According to our quality sources, these caller reinforcements included a fig of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),” which past twelvemonth began withdrawing each its forces from Turkiye to bluish Iraq arsenic portion of a bid process with Turkiye, bringing an extremity to a months-long disarming process pursuing a four-decade equipped struggle that killed tens of thousands of people.

The SDF denied the Syrian Ministry of Defence’s accusations that it had deployed subject forces to the Deir Hafer beforehand successful the eastbound Aleppo countryside.

It said determination were nary antithetic movements oregon preparations successful the area, adding that the gatherings that took spot were constricted to civilians from bluish and eastbound Syria to person the wounded from the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh neighbourhoods successful the metropolis of Aleppo.

Residents instrumentality aft battles

Syrian authorities forces connected Monday were carrying retired information sweeps successful the metropolis of Aleppo.

As immoderate residents displaced by the warring began returning to their areas, service forces were moving to region explosive devices and weapons successful different parts.

Residents of Ashrafieh, the archetypal of the 2 neighbourhoods to autumn to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, uncovering shrapnel and breached solid littering the streets connected Sunday.

“Most radical are returning to Ashrafieh, and they person begun to rebuild arsenic determination has been a batch of destruction,” said Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from Aleppo.

He added that this was not the lawsuit for Sheikh Maqsoud, wherever authorities forces were inactive searching for explosives.

Smith added that Syrian forces were besides looking for absorption prisoners arrested by the SDF during the regularisation of erstwhile person Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown successful December 2024 by forces led by the existent president, Ahmed al-Sharaa.

United States envoy Tom Barrack met al-Sharaa connected Saturday and afterwards issued a telephone for a “return to dialogue” successful accordance with the integration agreement.

The departure of the fighters marks the removal of SDF from pockets of Aleppo, which it has held since Syria’s warfare began successful 2011.

Syrian wellness authorities said connected Sunday astatine slightest 24 civilians person been killed and 129 wounded successful SDF attacks since past Tuesday.

Munir al-Mohammad, media manager astatine Aleppo’s wellness directorate, said the casualties were caused by repeated attacks targeting civilian areas, according to SANA.

The United Kingdom-based monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which follows the developments successful Syria done a web of sources connected the ground, reported that 45 civilians were killed on with 60 soldiers and fighters from some sides.