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Violence in Kurdish Aleppo neighbourhoods displaces 155,000: governor


Saturday, 10 January, 2026 , 12:28

Aleppo, Syria, Jan 10, 2026 (AFP) — Aleppo governor Azzam al-Gharib said on Saturday that the ongoing clashes in the northern Syrian city's Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods had displaced around 155,000 people.

At a press conference, the governor said "approximately 155,000 people were displaced from the Sheikh Maqsud and Ashrafiyeh neighbourhoods", heading for other parts of the city and the nearby countryside.