Overview

• Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra said he met SDF commander Mazloum Abdi in Damascus and agreed to a comprehensive halt across northern and northeastern fronts, effective immediately.
• State media reported at least one internal security officer killed and several people, including civilians, wounded in exchanges of fire in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafieh districts.
• The SDF denied attacking checkpoints or maintaining forces in those areas and urged an end to what it called a government siege, while authorities accused Kurdish fighters of mortar and sniper fire.
• Witnesses and monitors described Syrian army redeployments, sealed access to the Kurdish neighborhoods, communications cuts, and families fleeing during the overnight unrest.
• US envoy Tom Barrack and CENTCOM’s Adm. Brad Cooper met Abdi and engaged Damascus to push the March 10 integration deal, which both sides acknowledge has stalled despite public commitments.