ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) early Sunday announced reaching “an understanding that leads to a ceasefire” in Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods. Syrian state media reported that all Kurdish-led forces had evacuated the area.

‏”With the mediation of international parties to stop the attacks and violations against our people in Aleppo, we have reached an understanding that leads to a ceasefire and ensuring the evacuation of martyrs, wounded, trapped civilians, and fighters from Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh neighborhoods to north and east Syria,” read a statement from SDF chief Mazloum Abdi.

‏Abdi called on the mediators to “fulfill their promises to stop the violations and work towards the safe return of the displaced to their homes.”

Clashes between forces affiliated with the Syrian government and Aleppo’s Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) have wracked the Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh since January 6.

At least 38 Damascus-affiliated fighters, one Asayish member, and 43 civilians were killed, and over 115 others injured in nearly a week of fighting, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The conflict also displaced around 155,000 people from their homes, according to figures from the Syrian government.

The statement from the SDF chief followed an earlier announcement by the local councils of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh, where they declared a “partial ceasefire” in the two neighborhoods to facilitate “the evacuation of the wounded, women, and children” from the Khalid Fajr hospital.

The Khalid Fajr hospital has borne the brunt of the conflict, having been subjected to repeated attacks using "machine gun and drones," according to the UK-based Syrian Obervatory for Human Rights (SOHR), who warned of a "potential humanitarian catastrophe," as citizens trapped in the hospital plead for help.

Minutes after Abdi's statement, Syrian state media reported that all “SDF members” had been evacuated from Sheikh Maqsoud, publishing images of buses purportedly transporting members of the Kurdish-led forces from the Aleppo neighborhood to northeast Syria (Rojava).