Aleppo rocked by deadly clashes

Deadly clashes erupted in Syria's northern city of Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish-led security personnel on Monday as Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan urged the Kurds to integrate into the Syrian army.

The Syrian government and the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces traded blame over who started the clashes, which killed three civilians according to tolls from Syrian state media and the SDF.

The violence comes ahead of a deadline

for implementing a March 10 agreement

between Damascus

and the Kurds to integrate the SDF -- which controls vast swathes of Syria's oil-rich northeast -- into the state.

State news agency SANA said on Monday that "two civilians were killed and eight others were wounded in SDF shelling on districts of Aleppo", a city that has witnessed heightened tensions and a previous bout of violence between the two sides in October.