Kurdish forces said the fighters were evacuated “through international parties to stop attacks and violations against our people in Aleppo“.
Clashes between the two sides in the city of Aleppo took place earlier this week after talks on Kurdish integration into the country’s new government stalled.
A ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said 419 fighters, including 59 wounded and several killed, had been transferred from the neighborhood of Sheikh Maksud to the Kurdish “de facto” autonomous territory in the northeast.
An AFP correspondent saw buses carrying men leaving the Sheikh Maksoud district overnight, escorted by government forces.
The official added that another 300 Kurds, including militants, have been detained.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a British-based war monitoring organization, told AFP that 300 “young Kurds” had been detained, adding that they were “civilians, not fighters”.
Clashes between the new government in Damascus and Syrian Kurdish armed formations in Aleppo began on January 6.
Both sides blame each other for the escalation of violence. More than 20 people died in the clashes.
By January 10, some 155,000 residents of mainly Kurdish areas had fled to other parts of the city or the countryside, Aleppo Governor Azzam al-Gharib said.
The Syrian army announced on Saturday that it had finished clearing Kurdish areas of Aleppo from militants.
The new authorities in Damascus remain in difficult relations not only with the Kurds, but also with the Druze and Alawites.
Violence and bloody clashes have also occurred in the Druze and Alawite regions in the south and west of the country.
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