Aleppo (Syria) (AFP) – Residents of two Kurdish neighbourhoods in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been told to leave their homes as the country’s military prepares for fresh strikes on Kurdish positions. With smoke billowing over the city, thousands of people have already fled and more than a dozen have been killed during clashes between Syria’s army and Kurdish-led forces. The violence erupted on 6 January as the two sides struggle to implement a March deal to bring a Kurdish-led administration and army into Syria’s new Islamist government.
