{"id":308589,"date":"2026-01-10T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/broken-truce-why-are-syrias-islamist-government-forces-clashing-with-kurdish-forces-in-aleppo\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T18:00:23","slug":"broken-truce-why-are-syrias-islamist-government-forces-clashing-with-kurdish-forces-in-aleppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/broken-truce-why-are-syrias-islamist-government-forces-clashing-with-kurdish-forces-in-aleppo\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken truce: Why are Syria&#8217;s Islamist government forces clashing with Kurdish forces in Aleppo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/JUMHpAmhZwo\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Broken truce: Why are Syria's Islamist government forces clashing with Kurdish forces in Aleppo?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JUMHpAmhZwo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Fighting broke out once again in Syria&#8217;s second city of Aleppo, where Kurdish forces resist President Ahmed al-Sharaa\u2019s Islamist-led government\u2019s attempts to centralize control. The violence has exposed a key post-war faultline in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Chapter Breakdown<br \/>\n0:00 Syria&#8217;s Islamist government seeks to centralize control in Aleppo, clashing with Kurdish fighters<br \/>\n0:32 Wladimir van Wilgenburg, journalist in Erbil, on failure of Syrian gov&#8217;t to agree to safe transfer of Kurdish forces<\/p>\n<p>#syria #islamistforces<br \/>\n#kurdish<\/p>\n<p>For more news go to: http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow DW on social media:<br \/>\n\u25baInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@dwnews<br \/>\n\u25baFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/deutschewellenews\/<br \/>\n\u25baTwitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/dwnews<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Videos in deutscher Sprache besuchen Sie: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/dwdeutsch<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/deutschewelleenglish?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting broke out once again in Syria&#8217;s second city of Aleppo, where Kurdish forces resist President Ahmed al-Sharaa\u2019s Islamist-led government\u2019s attempts to centralize control. 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Chapter Breakdown 0:00 Syria&#8217;s Islamist government seeks to centralize control in Aleppo, clashing with Kurdish fighters 0:32 Wladimir van Wilgenburg, journalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130889],"tags":[129159,130589,128831],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-308589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dw-news","tag-broke","tag-fighting","tag-once"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broken truce: Why are Syria&#039;s Islamist government forces clashing with Kurdish forces in Aleppo? | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Broken truce: Why are Syria&#039;s Islamist government forces clashing with Kurdish forces in Aleppo? for free, here on News ISC. 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