Archive | January 19, 2026

The Syrian government of al-Sharaa is taking territory from the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, and the United States is backing it. As we read in Middle East Eye: Earlier this month, Syria’s military launched an operation in Aleppo’s al‑Ashrafiyah and Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhoods, areas held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for years. Damascus accused […]

ISIS terrorists have been released from prisons, according to the Syrian government. As we read in the New York Times: Clashes erupted on Monday around two prisons in northeastern Syria holding members of the terrorist group Islamic State, according to Kurdish officials, a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of the […]