ALEPPO: Syria’s government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city’s Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes.
Residents of the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, the first of two areas to fall to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, finding shrapnel and broken glass littering the streets.
The violence started earlier this week after negotiations stalled on integrating the Kurds’ de facto autonomous administration and forces into the country’s new government.
A Syrian security official said that 419 Kurdish fighters, including 59 wounded and an unspecified number of dead, were transferred from the Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood — the second area to come under army control — to the Kurdish-controlled zone in the northeast.