Hundreds of protesters raised their voices and called for unity against the US military and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pro-separatist militia.

Students and teachers demanded that faculties, institutes and schools also protest, and carried banners with phrases denouncing the US destruction to the university buildings.

According to reports from the Syrian authorities, the FDS militia practices a destructive policy in the education sector by converting schools into prisons and barracks, in addition to seizing hundreds of educational centers, where they impose a teaching approach that responds to their separatist plans.

The air strikes conducted by US helicopters and fighter jets on January 24th left considerable damage to the administrative buildings and to the faculties of Civil Engineering and Economics, as well as to the Polytechnic Institute, and interrupted the classes of 25,000 university students.

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