Clashes are going on in Aleppo since armed gang groups acting for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacked the control points of YPG (People's Defense Units) and the Kurdish al-Akrad Front in Kurdish neighborhoods on Friday afternoon.

An armed group led by Xalid Heyani and the Rebii EL Erebi group, accompanied by Selahaddin Brigade and some groups affiliated to Azadi Party, launched the attack against YPG control points in the mainly Kurdish Sheik Maksoud (Şêx Meqsûd), Esrefiye, Sekin Şebabi and Şiqêf neighborhoods of Aleppo city.

YPG and al-Akrad fighters strongly responded to the heavy weapon attacks of the gang groups which were later joined and supported by some other jihadist groups.

At least 25 members of the gang groups were killed and many others were wounded in clashes with YPG fighters who also took nine gang members captive. Kurdish fighters also seized three headquarters of the Heyani group in the Seken Şebabi neighborhood.

In the face of the resistance by YPG and al-Akrad fighters, armed groups started to launch artillery attacks on Kurdish neighborhoods, killing three civilians and wounding eleven others.

The groups affiliated to FSA launched another attack on the village of Beno, in another area, after they failed to move forward in the Kurdish neighborhoods. Clashes in the region are continuing.

On September 4, the Supreme Kurdish Council announced that they would form an investigation committee to inquire into the allegations that the Azadi Party is involved in armed gang groups' attacks on civilians in the regions of Aleppo and Afrin.

Mustafa Cummaa, leader of the Azadi Party, who is accused of acting in unity with al-Qaeda affiliated groups and the Turkish intelligence, is currently being guarded in Federal Kurdistan Region.