ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Northeast Syria’s Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) on Tuesday accused Damascus-affiliated forces of carrying out several attacks on Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, killing at least one resident and injuring two others.

“We, the internal security forces in Aleppo, confirm that during the past 24 hours, the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood was subjected to several attacks by armed factions affiliated with the Interim Ministry of Defense,” the Asayish said in a statement.

The Damascus-affiliated factions targeted the area “four times consecutively,” resulting in the death of a resident and the injury of two brothers, “as well as causing significant property damage,” according to the statement.

“We responded strongly to these attacks, targeting two positions belonging to these armed factions,” the forces added.

Syrian state media (SANA) reported that an army personnel was killed and several others wounded in an alleged shelling by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), targeting army deployment positions in Sheikh Maqsoud.

Following the attack,  SANA said that security forces have closed the Aleppo-Gaziantep road.

The attacks come after the Damascus-linked factions’ “indiscriminate shelling” in Aleppo’s Deir Hafer area the previous night, according to an SDF statement.

The defense ministry said the Monday attack was in response to an alleged SDF drone strike on their positions earlier, a claim denied by the Kurdish-led force as a pretext to inflame tensions.

The escalations follow a high-level meeting on Sunday between an SDF delegation headed by the forces’ chief Mezloum Abdi and officials in Damascus, discussing the implementation of the March 10 agreement concerned with the integration of Kurdish-led units in the country into the Syrian army.

While the Kurdish side asserted that the meeting was held in a “professional and responsible” manner, ensuring “well-considered results,” Syrian sources told state media that it did not lead to any “tangible results.”

The implementation of the agreement has been stalled due to the Kurdish side demanding a democratic integration while Damascus maintains its centralized stance, with frequent clashes between the two sides further escalating tensions.

Armed altercations between the Asayish and Syrian forces have been particularly reported in Aleppo’s two main Kurdish-majority neighborhoods, Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, with the forces repeatedly trading blame for the attacks.

The clashes build on political tensions between Damascus and SDF over failures to complete the integration agreement.