Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods under blockade despite ceasefire: Local media

Hawar News Agency (ANHA) said that all seven roads leading to the neighborhoods remain blocked, with government forces maintaining earthen barriers erected when the siege began on October 6. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said security forces have allowed only pedestrians on two roads, while vehicle access remains suspended.

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Damascus, SDF agree to immediate ceasefire after deadly Aleppo clashes

The meeting took place after Monday’s clashes between the Asayish and Damascus forces in Aleppo’s Kurdish-majority neighborhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud, following a crackdown on demonstrators protesting the government’s unexplained closure of all roads leading to the area.

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Rojava’s PYD warns against 'broader conflict' after Aleppo clashes 

The party accused the Damascus government of imposing a “suffocating siege” by closing all roads leading to the neighborhoods, and attacking civilians peacefully demanding its lifting, leaving “dozens” wounded. 

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Syrian government forces clash with Kurdish Asayish in Aleppo

The Kurdish-led internal security forces (Asayish) said in a statement in the early hours of Tuesday that its forces were “repelled a large-scale attack launched by forces affiliated with the interim government.”

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