Rojava Intel

Drones targeted HTS and SNA positions that were targeting civilians in the town of al-Qashla, east of Aleppo.

URGENT Hundreds of civilians wounded in Sheikh Maqsoud, where HTS forces loyal to the Damascus government and SNA forces loyal to the Turkish state attacked with tanks, artillery, howitzers, mortars and kamikaze drones, have now arrived in Hasakah.

BREAKING NEWS Sheikh Maqsoud Security Forces: - Since January 6, 2026, gangs affiliated with the Damascus interim government have launched a brutal attack on our neighborhood, supported by Turkish state reconnaissance aircraft, tanks, artillery units, armored vehicles, and all kinds of heavy weapons, as well as thousands of gang members. - Our forces decided to resist and defend their honor. - No bowing down or surrender was accepted. - Our forces sacrificed their lives without hesitation to defend the neighborhood and the honor of our people. - A partial ceasefire has been declared to prevent further massacres and to evacuate the wounded, civilians, women, and children from the hospital to safe areas. - Our struggle and resistance will continue.

The Kurdish Red Crescent continues to transport the wounded to Deir Hafir. The vast majority of wounded civilians and fighters have arrived.

ATNOW DEIR HAFIR Asayish fighters who resisted to the end in Sheikh Maqsud and were severely wounded have also reached Deir Hafir.

Turkish drones are airborne over the countryside of Aleppo.

URGENT Damascus government forces targeted ambulances carrying martyrs and wounded from Deir Hafer with drones on the road between Tabqa and Deir Hafer; no casualties were reported.

BREAKING NEWS Some of the wounded from Sheikh Maqsoud reached Deir Hafir. Hundreds of people have been injured, including children.

The Syrian Government has brutally tortured and then executed this Kurdish prisoner of war.

URGENT HTS forces, affiliated with the Damascus government, and SNA forces, affiliated with the Turkish state, continue to bomb civilian areas along the Deir Hafir and Maskana axis. The SDF forces are responding to the attacks with missiles.

Creating the justification for the STG to attack the SDF. Why was the drone not spotted flying 50 km over the Aleppo countryside, a region that is under tight surveillance by Turkey - in which tens of thousands of STG soldiers have been stationed in. We are able to track every drone or jet flight in Syria based on local reports - yet, in the best surveyed region in Syria, not even one report of the sound of the drone or it being sighted has been made.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.