ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The representative of the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) in the Kurdistan Region on Saturday said that "war will return to all of Syria" if Syrian state forces succeed in taking control of Kurdish areas in Aleppo and displacing their inhabitants.

Clashes between Damascus-affiliated forces and Kurdish-led security forces (Asayish) have wracked Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods in recent days, with tens of people having been killed so far and hundreds of others displaced.

Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) representative in the Kurdistan Region Fathullah Hosseini told The New Region on Saturday that a renewed war across Syria would be inevitable if government-affiliated force succeed in Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh.

“If they take Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, war will return to all of Syria,” Hosseini said, describing the two districts as a red line for the Kurds and a key test for Syria’s fragile stability.

Hosseini accused the Damascus government of using pressure tactics against the Kurds, saying authorities are effectively “taking the Kurds as hostages.”

He said trust between Kurdish forces and the current Syrian leadership has collapsed, arguing that the Syrian army, backed by some regional countries, is seeking to dismantle Kurdish political and military gains achieved during years of conflict.

“There is no trust left between the Kurds and the current Syrian government,” he said, adding that armed groups aligned with the state would not be able to erase Kurdish achievements on the ground.

Hosseini also blamed Turkey for what he described as a negative role in Aleppo, saying Ankara has a harmful influence on President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s policies. He said international intervention is needed to prevent further escalation and to calm tensions in the northern city.

The Asayish in Aleppo on Saturday said that Sheikh Maqsoud's Khaled Fajr Hospital has been continually targeted by Syrian state forces "with direct support and backing from Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles."

Baqi Hamza, a member of the Syrian Democratic Council’s (SDC) foreign and general relations committees, told The New Region on Friday that Turkey played a role in the Syrian offensice, claiming government attacks were coordinated with Ankara.

“This attack comes with the Turkish armed forces deploying units in northern Aleppo, indicating that this attack was not random but in agreement with the Turkish regime,” he said.

Speaking to The New Region on Friday, Farid Saadoun, a Damascus-based Kurdish writer and political analyst with a PhD in literary criticism, echoed Hamza’s claim of Turkish involvement and said the fighting will be contained, otherwise risking a large civil war

Calling for a change in Damascus’ approach, Hosseini urged Sharaa to distance foreign armed groups from Syrian territory. “As long as foreign armed groups remain in Syria, the country will not see stability,” he said, warning that continued military pressure on Kurdish areas could push the conflict back into a nationwide war.

Aleppo Governor Azzam al-Ghareeb on Saturday said a press conference that 155,000 people have been displaced from the city's Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods due to the recent clashes