DAMASCUS—Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people yesterday in Syria’s northern Manbij region, a war monitor said.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reported that six of its fighters were killed in clashes with Turkey-backed Syrian rebels in Manbij, northern Syria. Nine additional fighters were injured.

Syria’s new authorities are cracking down on former regime cells in Alawite neighborhoods in Homs and coastal areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. At the same time, heavy fighting broke out in northern Syria’s Manbij between Turkish-backed groups and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),

SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi confirmed his forces' integration into Syria's new army, called for inclusive political dialogue, urged a ceasefire in Kobani, and stressed unity against division while maintaining strong ties with the US.

After the fall of Bashar Assad ‘s regime in Syria, the incoming Trump administration faces a complex set of challenges. Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to reduce U.S. involvement overseas, completely disengaging from Syria may not be a viable option.

Fighting intensified on Saturday between the Türkiye-backed Free Syrian Army and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the Tishrin Dam region southeast of Manbij city in the Aleppo countryside.

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by air strikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria's northern Manbij region, a war monitor said.

A senior U.S. diplomat in northern Syria, William V. Roebuck, in a memo, called it “a catastrophic sideshow” and “an intentioned-laced effort at ethnic cleansing” with reference to Erdogan’s plan to replace the Kurdish population with Syrian refugees from Turkey. There was a similar displacement after the Turkish occupation of Afrin.

Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror.In August that year,

Turkey and the U.S.' proxies in Syria have engaged in fierce battles in the last 24 hours. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights noted fighting in Manbij countryside, that resulted in the death of nearly 40 fighters.