Syria govt forces take control of Aleppo's Kurdish neighbourhoodsListen to this articleSome residents were able to return on Sunday to their neighbourhoods in Aleppo, where Kurdish fighters had clashed with government forces for daysALEPPO (SYRIA) - Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's Kurdish neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there to Kurdish autonomous areas following days of deadly clashes. The Syrian official said that 300 other Kurds, including fighters and members of the domestic security forces, had been arrested. Yahya al-Sufi, a 49-year-old clothing seller, told AFP he had fled during the violence. Sheikh Maqsud, however, remained off limits, with no one allowed to enter, an interior ministry source told AFP. Turkey has launched successive offensives to push Kurdish forces from the frontier.
