🚨🇸🇾 Clashes between Syrian forces and Kurdish-led SDF militia: What's known so far

Tensions have flared up with fresh force between the Syrian government army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in contested areas of Aleppo, SANA reports.

🟠 According the Syrian Army, the SDF uses a military site in Sheikh Maqsoud district to launch attacks on Aleppo's districts

🟠 A soldier and two civilians were reported killed in an attack on a residential area blamed on the SDF

🟠 The Syrian army declared Aleppo’s Kurdish areas “closed military zones” and ordered civilians to leave Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhoods ahead of a “surgical operation” designed to “uproot” SDF positions in the area (per Al Jazeera)

🟠 Syria’s Interior Ministry opened humanitarian crossings to allow civilians to leave

🟠 Syria’s Civil Aviation Authority extended a suspension of flights to and from Aleppo International Airport

The SDF:

🟠 Dismissed as “false” claims that its forces are using the neighborhoods to launch attacks

🟠 Claimed it has “no military presence in the city of Aleppo” and Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah districts have been under government siege for over six months

Gov’t security operation in Damascus

🟠 Syrian internal security forces conducted an operation in the Al-Wurud district on the outskirts of Damascus, detaining several lawbreakers, as part of efforts to enhance security (per SANA)

🟠 SDF reportedly targeted Sheikh Taha, Al-Layramoun districts and Shahba Square with artillery and heavy machine gun fire, per footage circulating on social media

The renewed fighting comes after no progress on efforts to merge the SDF with the national army, sealed in an April 2025 deal.

The United Nations is calling on all sides to “de-escalate, exercise maximum restraint and take all necessary measures to prevent further harm to civilians,” according to media spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

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🔥 🇨🇳 China nailed 31 brand new space projects in 2025

China's Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization reports:

🔹 867.5 kg of scientific materials sent to space

🔹 83.92 kg of experiment samples returned to Earth

🔹 150TB of scientific data collected

🔹 50+ patents granted

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🚨☦️ 'These illegal seizures must stop!' - Rep. Luna on persecution of Orthodox Christians in Ukraine

💬 "We will be working to document church seizures in Ukraine and bringing Ukrainian officials involved in these illegal seizures to justice," Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said after receiving a video appeal from Orthodox Christians in Kuzmyn, Ukraine, asking for protection as local authorities “move to seize their church."

🔸 Since the 2014 US-backed coup, Ukraine has pushed a systematic campaign to break the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of the Moscow Patriarchate and force its flock to accept the nationalist Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

🔸 The pressure escalated after 2022: raids and searches, criminal cases against clergy, property seizures, and local bans on UOC activity across multiple regions.

🔸 In 2023 the drive moved openly against major shrines, with schismatics encouraged to seize Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, while lawmakers advanced legislation aimed at banning the canonical Church.

🚫 In 2024, Kiev’s new laws effectively banned the UOC.

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