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Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A demonstrator kicks a canister of tear gas during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort, right, tries to shoot over Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner during the second half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
An injured man is assisted in the street after an explosion in downtown Tehran, amid Israel's three-day campaign of strikes against Iran, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Amir Kholousi/ISNA)
An explosion is seen during a missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)
Demonstrators walks through Grand Central Market during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray next to the closed Jaffa Gate just outside Jerusalem's Old City following a ban on public gatherings imposed by Israel's Home Front Command after a military strike on Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An Iranian protester holds up a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Residents react after their home was struck by a missile launched from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Sherine Abu Mor, embraces the body of her son, Hamza Al-Shaer, who was killed in an Israeli army airstrike, at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Bullet holes mark the front door of the house of Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife who were shot earlier in the day, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Champlin, Minn. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)
A woman observes military police patrolling after police spent days clearing roadblocks set up by supporters of Bolivia's former President Evo Morales who want him to be able to run for president again in Llallagua, Bolivia, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, of Denmark, tees off on the 16th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Oakmont, Pa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Israeli security forces inspect destroyed houses that were struck by a missile fired from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A relative of a victim of the Air India plane crash is comforted as she breaks down at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
People bathe in the Mediterranean Sea along the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Officers of the Grenadier Guards mounted on horses ride along the Mall as they take part in the Trooping the Color in London, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Prince George, right, and Prince Louis, children of Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, look at each other as they ride in a carriage to tale part in the Trooping the Colour in London, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
A person looks out at a destroyed residential building that was hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A man holds a photograph of Dmytro Shapovalov, a Ukrainian serviceman, during his funeral ceremony in Yosypivka village, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine, on Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze after a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
Demonstrators take part in the "No Kings" protest, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
A team member competes in the rope climb portion of the Army fitness competition during the festival event to honor the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Soldiers from the Army 82nd Airborne Division, dressed in World War I era uniforms, march past the reviewing stand and President Donald Trump during a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump salutes as attends a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and first lady Melania Trump, watch. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Israelis take shelter in a basement as a siren sounds a warning following missile launches from Iran, in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
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Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
A demonstrator kicks a canister of tear gas during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort, right, tries to shoot over Indiana Pacers center Myles Turner during the second half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals basketball series, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
An injured man is assisted in the street after an explosion in downtown Tehran, amid Israel's three-day campaign of strikes against Iran, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Amir Kholousi/ISNA)
An explosion is seen during a missile attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Tomer Neuberg)
Demonstrators walks through Grand Central Market during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray next to the closed Jaffa Gate just outside Jerusalem's Old City following a ban on public gatherings imposed by Israel's Home Front Command after a military strike on Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
An Iranian protester holds up a poster of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an anti-Israeli gathering in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Residents react after their home was struck by a missile launched from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Sherine Abu Mor, embraces the body of her son, Hamza Al-Shaer, who was killed in an Israeli army airstrike, at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Bullet holes mark the front door of the house of Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife who were shot earlier in the day, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Champlin, Minn. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)
A woman observes military police patrolling after police spent days clearing roadblocks set up by supporters of Bolivia's former President Evo Morales who want him to be able to run for president again in Llallagua, Bolivia, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, of Denmark, tees off on the 16th hole during the third round of the U.S. Open golf tournament at Oakmont Country Club Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Oakmont, Pa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, leaves federal court during the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Israeli security forces inspect destroyed houses that were struck by a missile fired from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A relative of a victim of the Air India plane crash is comforted as she breaks down at a hospital in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
People bathe in the Mediterranean Sea along the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Officers of the Grenadier Guards mounted on horses ride along the Mall as they take part in the Trooping the Color in London, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Prince George, right, and Prince Louis, children of Prince William and Kate, Princess of Wales, look at each other as they ride in a carriage to tale part in the Trooping the Colour in London, Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
A person looks out at a destroyed residential building that was hit by a missile fired from Iran, in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
A man holds a photograph of Dmytro Shapovalov, a Ukrainian serviceman, during his funeral ceremony in Yosypivka village, Vinnytsia region, Ukraine, on Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze after a missile launched from Iran struck Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
Demonstrators take part in the "No Kings" protest, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
A team member competes in the rope climb portion of the Army fitness competition during the festival event to honor the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, on the National Mall in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Soldiers from the Army 82nd Airborne Division, dressed in World War I era uniforms, march past the reviewing stand and President Donald Trump during a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump salutes as attends a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington, as Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and first lady Melania Trump, watch. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Israelis take shelter in a basement as a siren sounds a warning following missile launches from Iran, in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — First responders on Sunday entered a contested neighborhood in Syria’ s northern city of Aleppo after days of deadly clashes between government forces and Kurdish-led forces. Syrian state media said the military was deployed in large numbers.
The clashes broke out Tuesday in the predominantly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud, Achrafieh and Bani Zaid after the government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the main Kurdish-led force in the country, failed to make progress on how to merge the SDF into the national army. Security forces captured Achrafieh and Bani Zaid.
The fighting between the two sides was the most intense since the fall of then-President Bashar Assad to insurgents in December 2024. At least 23 people were killed in five days of clashes and more than 140,000 were displaced amid shelling and drone strikes.
The U.S.-backed SDF, which have played a key role in combating the Islamic State group in large swaths of eastern Syria, are the largest force yet to be absorbed into Syria's national army. Some of the factions that make up the army, however, were previously Turkish-backed insurgent groups that have a long history of clashing with Kurdish forces.
The Kurdish fighters have now evacuated from the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood to northeastern Syria, which is under the control of the SDF. However, they said in a statement they will continue to fight now that the wounded and civilians have been evacuated, in what they called a “partial ceasefire.”
The neighborhood appeared calm Sunday. The United Nations said it was trying to dispatch more convoys to the neighborhoods with food, fuel, blankets and other urgent supplies.
Government security forces brought journalists to tour the devastated area, showing them the damaged Khalid al-Fajer Hospital and a military position belonging to the SDF’s security forces that government forces had targeted.
The SDF statement accused the government of targeting the hospital “dozens of times” before patients were evacuated. Damascus accused the Kurdish-led group of using the hospital and other civilian facilities as military positions.
On one street, Syrian Red Crescent first responders spoke to a resident surrounded by charred cars and badly damaged residential buildings.
Some residents told The Associated Press that SDF forces did not allow their cars through checkpoints to leave.
“We lived a night of horror. I still cannot believe that I am right here standing on my own two feet,” said Ahmad Shaikho. “So far the situation has been calm. There hasn’t been any gunfire.”
Syrian Civil Defense first responders have been disarming improvised mines that they say were left by the Kurdish forces as booby traps.
Residents who fled are not being allowed back into the neighborhood until all the mines are cleared. Some were reminded of the displacement during Syria’s long civil war.
“I want to go back to my home, I beg you,” said Hoda Alnasiri.
Associated Press journalist Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut contributed to this report.
Sandbag barriers used as fighting positions by Kurdish fighters, left inside a destroyed mosque in the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
People flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A Syrian military police convoy enters the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)