(2026-01-23). Iraqi Gov't Agrees with US to Take Custody of 7,000 ISIL Fighters in Light of Syrian Instability. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Iraq is seeking custody of the captured ISIL (ISIS, Daesh) fighters who had been imprisoned by the Syrian Kurdish YPG forces. Some of these prisoners escaped recently when the fundamentalist Salafi Arab government in Damascus made a Blitzkrieg into eastern Syria, pushing out the YPG and seizing oil fields, towns, a dam, and vast territory. The Shiite-dominated government in Iraq does not like the new Syrian government of hard line ("Salafi") Sunni fundamentalists one little bit. Baghdad is petrified that instability in Syria will spill over into Iraq. And ISIL fighters escaping…
(2026-01-23). What happened in Syria? What will the next step be? uwidata.com The map in Syria has changed. The PKK/SDF, backed by the US for decades, has been forced to pull out of key strategic positions it has been controlling in northern Syria following a military operation launched by the Damascus government. Control over oil fields, border areas, and fertile agricultural land has now shifted to Damascus. …
(2026-01-23). Jeremy Corbyn calls out the latest Western-backed ethnic cleansing campaign. thecanary.co 
Everyone should listen to Jeremy Corbyn's intervention on the world's latest Western-backed ethnic cleansing campaign. Because a terrorist who once had a $10m bounty on his head is now in charge of Syria. And with a greenlight from the US, Turkey, and Israel, he's now attacking Kurdish people who led the fight to defeat Daesh. Corbyn: […] | By
(2026-01-23). Ambassador details Belarus' strategy in Russia. eng.belta.by The minimum goal is to maintain the export at the current level, Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Yuri Seliverstov told the media as he outlined the strategy for promoting Belarusian goods on the Russian market.