The Syrian Government continues to attack the hospital in Sheikh Maqsoud. Civilians are dying.

Statement | Turkish drone attack confirms military intervention in Syria

In a dangerous escalation that confirms direct Turkish intervention in Syria and threatens to expand the ongoing conflict in the region, a Turkish “Akinci” drone targeted a military point of our forces in the Al-Thawra field area south of the city of Al-Tabqa at six o’clock this evening, resulting in material damage.
This targeting is the first of its kind since the signing of the truce agreement that followed the battle of the Tishrin Dam, which constitutes a clear violation of the existing understandings, and reveals the Turkish side’s insistence on playing a direct military role in Syria.

Media Center of the Syrian Democratic Forces
January 10, 2026

If there is documented evidence of any person within the Kurdistan Region supporting terrorism, or being involved in acts targeting Kurds in Rojava, please inform the security forces in Erbil immediately.

Hotline (phone): 07502528272
File and evidence submission number: 0661 06

The forces confirmed that the Asayish forces will launch an immediate and serious investigation to identify and locate those involved, and take the necessary legal measures against them.

Preliminary report on Syrian regime and Turkish war on Sheikh Maqsoud & Ashrafieh

A large-scale attack was launched involving:
• ~42,000 fighters
• ~124 tanks documented so far
• 4 Turkish Bayraktar UAVs
• 76 suicide drones
• 94 long-range artillery units shelling from:
Al-Hamdaniyah
Infantry School
Aleppo countryside near al-Musallamiyah

400+ armored vehicles
78 rocket launchers
550 DShK heavy machine guns

Units involved:
• Division 60
• Division 72
• Division 86
• Division 62

Reinforcements:
• Northern & southern Aleppo countryside
• Idlib & its countryside
• Al-Rastan (Homs countryside)
• Northern Hama countryside
• So-called “General Security” (Aleppo & Idlib)
• “Security Maintenance”
• “Engineering”
• “Counterterrorism”

🚨Latest Information from Sheikh Maqsud

Asayish fighter: Even though we are surrounded, we continue to resist. None of our comrades have abandoned their positions. The clashes continue. We will not surrender, we will fight until our last bullet.

🚨Urgent

Very heavy shelling on the axes of Maskana and Deir Hafer in the Aleppo countryside

BREAKING NEWS

The town of Deir Hafer in the eastern Aleppo countryside was subjected to intense shelling by groups loyal to the Damascus government, resulting in the deaths of four civilians, including three girls:

Fatima al-Ahmad (11 years old)

Hamida Hilal (13 years old)

Gharam Tariq al-Hamad (13 years old)

Abdul Latif al-Sheikh Hussein (65 years old)

The same groups targeted the Deir Hafer post office with a suicide drone, causing material damage, but no further casualties have been reported so far.

In the context of systematic acts of genocide committed by factions and militias affiliated with the Damascus government, these militias have abducted dozens of young civilian men after forcibly separating them from their families as they were leaving the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, then proceeded to parade them in the media and falsely present them as fighters within our forces.
This blatantly criminal behavior reflects nothing but a systematic approach to falsifying facts, abducting civilians, and exploiting them as propaganda tools to cover up crimes of forced displacement, shelling, and intimidation. It is a literal repetition of the same crimes committed by these factions in the coastal regions and in Sweida.

We affirm that the abducted individuals are entirely civilians, and we hold the Damascus government and its factions fully responsible for their lives and safety. We call on the international community to assume its legal and moral responsibilities, to open an immediate investigation into these violations, to condemn them publicly, and to hold the perpetrators accountable as war criminals.
Internal Security Forces – Aleppo
Media Center

Syrian Government Forces have massacred at least 16 Kurds in Sheikh Maqsoud (Aleppo).
One of the corpses can be seen burning.

What has happened before the massacre:
A member of the Asayish has been surrounded and surrendered - per statement from the STG, all combatants who surrender will be protected by the Syrian state.
Minutes later, those who had to surrender were brought together and massacred.

حاولت حكومة دمشق الوحشية منع توثيق المجازر التي ارتُكبت بحق الشعب الكردي في أحياء الشيخ مقصود والأشرفية، مصوّرة الحرب على أنها التزام بالقوانين الدولية التي تحمي المدنيين، وذلك من خلال إصدار تحذيرات مباشرة قبل استهداف المواقع المدنية.
وفيما يلي انتهاكات للقانون الدولي موضّحة من خلال تحليل خرائطي دقيق.

The brutal Syrian government attempted to prevent the documentation of massacres against the Kurdish people in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Asrafieh neighborhoods, depicted the war as an adherence to international laws protecting civilians by issuing direct warnings before targeting civilian sites. The following are violations of international law, presented through clear cartographic analysis.

أخفى النظام الوحشي جرائمه خوفاً من عرضها على الكونغرس، لا احتراماً للشعب السوري أو التزاماً بالمعايير الدولية، بل خوفاً من التقارير التي ستُرفع إلى الكونغرس كل ستة أشهر، والتي تُفصّل ممارسات النظام الوحشية، وفقاً لما ينص عليه قانون رفع العقوبات.

تتضح الحقيقة في التحليل التالي.

The brutal Syrian government concealed its crimes out of fear of the atrocities being brought before Congress—not out of respect for the Syrian people or adherence to international standards, but out of fear of the reports that would be sent to Congress every six months, detailing the STG brutal conduct, as mandated by the sanctions relief law.

The truth is illustrated in the analysis below.