After rising tensions and minor attacks over the last several months, the Syrian
Transitional government (HTS) along side the Syrian National Army (SNA) and soldiers
videoed wearing ISIS uniform and known Turkish nationalists, led a joint attack on the
Kurdish majority neighbourhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah which are part of the
Democratic Autonomous Administration.
With Tanks, airstrikes and other heavy weaponry the Syrian Army started a heavy siege on
the 6th January. On the 9th of January the people’s council of Sheikh Maqsoud and
Ashrafiyah made a joint statement, declaring that they would stay and defend. The internal
security forces and the people continued their resistance against the fascist Islamist
ideology and physical attacks.
