Syria's army took control of swathes of northern Syria and threatened to bomb parts of Raqa province on Saturday after Kurdish forces pulled back from territory they had held for over a decade.Kurdish authorities ordered a curfew in the Raqa region after the army designated a swathe of territory southwest of the Euphrates River a "closed military zone" and warned it would target what it said were several military sites.

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have exchanged fire in eastern Aleppo province.

By Khalil Ashawi, Mahmoud Hasano and Orhan Qereman ALEPPO, Syria Jan 10 (Reuters) - The last Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters left the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, state-run Ekhbariya TV said,

Kurdish fighters were evacuated from a contested neighborhood in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, officials said, a move that could bring an end to several days of violent clashes with government forces.

Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo province

The Syrian army launched new strikes in parts of Aleppo on Thursday after ordering residents to evacuate, accusing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of using Kurdish-majority areas to launch attacks as clashes entered a third day.

The takeover ended one of the worst outbreaks of violence between the central government and the Kurdish-led forces since the end of the civil war just over a year ago.

Syria's Kurdish fighters said Sunday that they agreed under a ceasefire to withdraw from Aleppo after days of fighting government forces in the city.

Several thousand people marched under the rain in northeast Syria on Tuesday to protest the expulsion of Kurdish fighters from the city of Aleppo the previous week after days of deadly clashes. The violence in Aleppo has deepened one of the main faultlines in Syria,

Syrian security forces deploy in Aleppo after five days of intense clashes with Kurdish fighters, killing at least 22 and displacing more than 140,000 residents. U.S. special envoy warns that violence undermines progress since Assad’s fall and calls for all parties to cease hostilities and return to dialogue.

Sharaa's decree came after fierce ​clashes that broke out last week in the northern city ​of Aleppo, ⁠leaving at least 23 people dead, according to Syria's health ministry, and forced more than 150,000 to flee the two Kurdish-run pockets of the city.