Deadly fighting erupts in Syria after ceasefire

A Kurdish-led fighting force said on Monday it was clashing with Syrian government forces near a prison holding Islamic State group detainees on the outskirts of Raqqa city.

Earlier, the government alleged that some groups from the rebel forces had targeted and killed three army troops in Aleppo as part of “attempts to disrupt a ceasefire.”

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the clashes as a "highly dangerous development" and said that government forces seizing the prison "could have serious security repercussions that threaten stability and pave the way for a return to chaos and terrorism."

Despite the ceasefire “factions affiliated with the Damascus government continue their attacks on SDF forces in Ain Issa, al-Shaddadi, and Raqqa,” it added.

Under a sweeping integration deal agreed on Sunday, responsibility for prisons housing IS detainees was meant to be transferred to the Syrian government.

Earlier, Syria’s military said three of its soldiers were killed and an unspecified number of others wounded in SDF attacks near Aleppo city.

A military source told Al Jazeera that fighting broke out between the Syrian army and SDF forces in the Bir al-A’ma area near the Tishrin Dam in the Aleppo countryside.

State news agency SANA reported “some terrorist groups from the PKK and remnants of the former regime are attempting to disrupt the implementation of the agreement by targeting Syrian Arab Army forces”.

“We announce the martyrdom of three soldiers and the injury of others following two attacks targeting deployed forces,” SANA quoted an army statement as saying.