New Jihadi Attacks Against Kurds in Aleppo
POPULAR FRONT
Jake Hanrahan
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Today we speak to writer and activist Karim Franceschi. He is also a former YPG International commander who fought in Kobanî and Raqqa. He talks to us about the wildlt under-reporter pogroms currently taking place in the Kurdish areas of Aleppo, Syria. The new jiahdi forces of the transitional government have launched a mission of ethnic cleansing and no one seems to care.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan. |
| 0:07.0 | We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world. |
| 0:14.0 | Popular Front is completely independent. |
| 0:17.0 | Today we're speaking to Karim Franceschi. |
| 0:20.0 | He is a former YPG International Commander. |
| 0:24.6 | He fought for the Kurds in the Battle of Kobani and the Battle of Raqqqa. |
| 0:29.6 | He's going to be speaking to us about the ongoing ethnic cleansing that is happening in the Kurdish areas of Aleppo and beyond now |
| 0:41.5 | at the hands of the militants of the Jalani government, the so-called new Syrian forces here. |
| 0:51.6 | If you like what we're doing here, support us at patreon.com slash popularfront. |
| 1:01.7 | Before we go into what's happening right now, which is essentially Syrian government, |
| 1:09.7 | Jalani forces, launching a pogrom ethnic cleansing against Kurds in Aleppo and further. |
| 1:16.7 | Before we go into what's happening right now, maybe you can just explain how this happened. |
| 1:22.9 | These clashes have been going on around two weeks. |
| 1:26.3 | Of course, the Jalani government or Al-Shaara, as people want to call him now, but he's still Jalani, if you ask me. |
| 1:32.6 | But the government there basically said that the Kurds attacked them in Aleppo. |
| 1:37.6 | It was proven with video that that was not true. |
| 1:40.3 | There was footage of Jalani forces attacking checkpoints in Kurdish areas |
| 1:46.2 | from what I understand in Sheikh Mansoud. |
| 1:48.4 | Can you explain to us, maybe? How did this |
| 1:50.1 | all start? Well, first of all, |
| 1:52.5 | we have to say that |
| 1:54.2 | Sheikh Massoud was our neighbourhood |
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