DAMASCUS: Syria's government was in full control of Aleppo on Sunday after taking over the city's neighbourhoods and evacuating fighters there following days of deadly clashes. Residents of the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood, the first of two areas to fall to the Syrian army, began returning to their homes to inspect the damage, finding shrapnel and broken glass littering the streets. An unspecified number of dead were transferred from the Sheikh Maqsud neighbourhood.
A correspondent saw crossed-out images of Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and US envoy Tom Barrack, as people chanted against Sharaa. US envoy Tom Barrack met on Saturday with Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa, and afterwards issued a call for a "return to dialogue" with the Kurds in accordance with an integration agreement sealed last year.
The Syrian official said that 300 other Kurds, including fighters and members of the domestic security forces, had been arrested. Syrian authorities said on Sunday that the toll from the fighting had reached "24 dead and 129 wounded since last Tuesday", while the Observatory counted 45 civilians and 60 soldiers and fighters from both sides killed. — AFP
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