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Kurdish fighters leave Syria’s Aleppo after days of clashes 

10 January 2026
This content originally appeared on Al Jazeera.

BREAKING,

The governor of Syria’s Aleppo says the last fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have left the city after days of conflict.

Government forces have been coordinating the withdrawal of SDF fighters on buses out of Aleppo overnight.

It comes after the Syrian Army took over the Kurdish-majority neighbourhood of Sheikh Maqsoud.