Reuters. The manager of al-Razi hospital in Aleppo said on Monday (December 22) the facility received ten casualties, including two fatalities, following clashes between Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syrian government forces in the city.
"In the last few hours, we received ten casualties, two of whom arrived deceased, and eight with varying injuries. Seven of the injured were in mild to moderate condition and were admitted to the hospital. One of the injured was in critical condition and was admitted to the intensive care unit. All the injured were civilians; two were members of the Civil Defense, and the rest were women and children. Both deceased and the critical case were due to direct targeting of the street in front of al-Razi hospital," Doctor Abdul Qader Farah told Reuters.
Wounded people arrived at al-Razi hospital in Aleppo following clashes on Monday between Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and Syrian government forces in the city.
At least two civilians were killed, with several others injured, in the northern Syrian city as government forces and the Kurdish-led SDF accused each other of responsibility for the escalation.
The Syrian health ministry said two people were killed and several were wounded in shelling by the SDF on residential neighbourhoods in the city. The injuries included two children and two civil defence workers.
Hours earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Damascus that the SDF appeared to have no intention of honouring a commitment to integrate into the state's armed forces by an agreed year-end deadline.
Syrian state news agency SANA, citing the defence ministry, reported earlier that the SDF had launched a sudden attack on security forces and the army in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah neighbourhoods of Aleppo, resulting in injuries.
The SDF denied this and said the attack was carried out by factions affiliated with the Syrian government. It said those factions were using tanks and artillery against residential neighbourhoods in the city.
The defence ministry denied the SDF's statements, saying the army was responding to sources of fire from Kurdish forces.
Turkey views the U.S.-backed SDF, which controls swathes of northeastern Syria, as a terrorist organisation and has warned of military action if the group does not honour the agreement.
