The fighting presents yet another challenge for a country struggling to forge a new path since the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad a year ago. Residents flee the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on January 9, 2026, GHAITH ALSAYED / AP Syria's army renewed strikes on a Kurdish district of Aleppo on Friday, January 9, after fighters from the minority refused to leave in defiance of a ceasefire that sought to halt days of fighting. The government and Kurdi