Aleppo Armenians have been urged to stay at home due to clashes, the Aleppo-based Kantsasar Armenian newspaper reports.

Members of the Armenian community of Aleppo, Syria have been urged not to leave their homes due to clashes that have broken out between the forces of country’s interim government and Kurdish formations.

According to the monitoring center Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, these clashes took place in the Sheikh Maqsoud and al-Ashrafieh districts of Aleppo.