Deadly Battles Break Out Between Kurdish-Led Fighters and Syria Forces

Syrian government forces engaged in deadly clashes with Kurdish-led, U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo governorate, with at least four people killed in artillery fire and gun battles. 
  
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said a soldier was killed and three injured in an attack by SDF fighters on Tuesday. 
 
Citing the Interior Ministry, state television later reported three civilians, including two women, were killed and others wounded, including two children, in shelling of a residential area that it blamed on the SDF. 
  
“Heavy fighting between government forces and the SDF fighters is continuing and is particularly concentrated in the districts of Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud, where the majority of the Kurds live,” Al Jazeera’s Resul Serdar Atas reported from Beit Jinn, Syria. 
   
The fighting comes two days after senior SDF leaders met Syrian government officials in Damascus for talks on the integration of Syrian Democratic Forces into the regular army. 
 
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