The Syrian regime continued a crushing siege of two Kurdish neighbourhoods in Syria’s largest city of Aleppo for the twelfth day running on Tuesday. The Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiya neighbourhoods, controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have been blockaded by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad as part of an operation that has seen restrictions on life there for over a month. The SDF and allied police from the Kurdish-run Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) retaliated by taking control of areas controlled by the regime in the city centre of Qami…