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Syria announces ceasefire after days of clashes with Kurdish fighters in Aleppo

(9 Jan 2026) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Aleppo, Syria - 9 January 2026 1. Various of damaged building in Achrafieh neighbourhood 2. Boy cleaning sidewalk 3. Man cleaning sidewalk in front of his shop 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Radwan Hamadi, Achrafieh neighbourhood resident: “We had a very difficult night last night, but we just want this to pass peacefully. Hopefully things will get better after the ceasefire now. I’ve reopened my shop, thank God, now we can go back to working and making a living.” 5. Various of damaged vehicle 6. Roundabout in Achrafieh neighborhood 7. Various of armed security forces in streets 8. Police car with sirens on 9. Armed security forces on back of pickup truck 10. People on balcony looking out 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Ahmed Hajjar, Achrafieh neighborhood resident: “(The ceasefire) is good, it’s excellent, thank God, it’s a very good step, the army took a good step. What we need now is for them to remove these checkpoints so we can breathe a little, so we can move around. I have a tailor shop and I can’t work now, the workers aren’t able to come, and I can’t send any products outside. If I want to bring in textiles I get stuck at the checkpoint for an hour and a half or two or three hours.” 12. Car in street 13. Various of armed men manning a checkpoint 14. Cars and security in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood STORYLINE: Syria’s Defense Ministry announced a ceasefire on Friday after three days of clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Aleppo that displaced tens of thousands of people. There was no immediate public response from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, while a local Kurdish council rejected calls for the evacuation of fighters. The ministry statement said the ceasefire was effective at 3 a.m. in the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid and gave armed groups six hours to leave the area. It said departing militants would be allowed to carry their “personal light weapons” and would be provided with an escort to the country’s northeast, which is controlled by the SDF. Aleppo Governor Azzam al-Gharib toured the contested neighborhoods with an escort of security forces overnight. However, in the hours after the announcement, no fighters departed. Buses lined up to evacuate militants remained empty hours after the deadline. Associated Press journalists at the scene said a burst of machine-gun fire targeted the location the buses had entered from, and an artillery shell landed on the road, but calm quickly returned. A local council representing the Sheikh Maqsoud and Achrafieh neighborhoods issued a statement saying, “We will not accept the pressures imposed on us and the calls for surrender.” “We do not trust the Damascus government to entrust our security to us, and we have decided to remain in our neighborhoods and defend them,” it said. U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack welcomed the ceasefire announcement in a statement on X and extended “profound gratitude to all parties — the Syrian government, the Syrian Democratic Forces, local authorities, and community leaders — for the restraint and goodwill that made this vital pause possible.” Barrack said the U.S. was working with the parties to extend the ceasefire beyond the six-hour deadline. Some 142,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, which broke out Tuesday with exchanges of shelling and drone strikes. The clashes come amid an impasse in political negotiations between the central state and the SDF. AP Video shot by Ghaith Alsayed Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...