Syria tells civilians to leave Aleppo's Kurdish areasListen to this articleThousands of people have fled Aleppo's majority-Kurdish areas. (Photo: AFP)ALEPPO — Syria's military warned civilians in two besieged Kurdish neighbourhoods in the city of Aleppo to leave on Thursday, as it prepared to conduct a fresh wave of strikes targeting Kurdish positions. On Wednesday, thousands of civilians fled the two Kurdish neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsud and Ashrafiyeh via two corridors set up by the army, which then went on to shell the areas after an evacuation deadline. In Qamishli, the main city of Syria's Kurdish areas in the northeast, hundreds of people demonstrated on Thursday against the Aleppo violence, according to AFP correspondents. In Israel, the foreign minister Gideon Saar condemned what he called "serious and dangerous" attacks against the Kurdish minority.

Source: Bangkok Post January 08, 2026 18:56 UTC