Syria’s Kurdish fighters agree to leave AleppoAFP, ALEPPO, SyriaSyria’s Kurdish fighters yesterday said that they agreed under a ceasefire to withdraw from Aleppo after days of fighting government forces in the city. Hours earlier, Syria’s military said it had finished operations in the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsud neighborhood with state television reporting that Kurdish fighters who surrendered were being bused to the north. An Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondent on Saturday saw at least five buses carrying men out of Sheikh Maqsud, but could not independently verify their identities. On the outskirts of Sheikh Maqsud, families who had been trapped by the fighting were leaving, accompanied by Syrian security forces. Israel has sided with the Kurdish forces.

Source: Taipei Times January 11, 2026 16:31 UTC