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Loveday Morris, Mustafa Salim Washington Post · 27 Jan, 2026 05:00 PM 9 mins to read US officials stand near a damaged installation hit by Iranian airstrikes inside the Ain al-Asad base near Anbar, Iraq, on January 13, 2020. Photo / Emilienne Malfatto, for The Washington Post US officials stand…

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Reuters Members of the Syrian security forces stand guard outside al-Aqtan prison, where some Islamic State detainees are held, in Raqqa, Syria January 23, 2026. REUTERS/Karam al-Masri LONDON, Jan ‌27 - ​Britain, the ‌United States, France and ​Germany on Tuesday ‍welcomed the 15-day ​extension of ​the ⁠ceasefire between the Syrian…

UK Gov Joint statement by France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States following a meeting of French Foreign Minister Jean Noël Barrot, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, German Deputy Foreign Minister Serap Güler, and U.S. Special Envoy Tom Barrack We welcome the 15-day extension of the ceasefire…

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will meet Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow, pro-government Syria TV reported on Monday. (Reporting by Kinda Makieh; Writing by Menna Alaa El-Din) Read More

Why AL-Monitor? AL-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the highest levels, as well as by media, thought and business leaders and academia. Live news & notifications…

BAGHDAD — Over the past year, Iraqi spy chief Hamid al-Shatri says, he has been warily tracking the growing numbers of Islamic State militants over the border in Syria. From an estimated 2,000 fighters, the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria have swelled in little more than a year…

Convoy carrying food and fuel reaches Kurdish-majority town, also known as Kobane, in Aleppo province. A United Nations convoy carrying “life-saving” aid has arrived in the Kurdish-majority town of Ain al-Arab in northern Syria as a ceasefire agreement between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues…

A 4,400-year-old name etched on a gift tag may be rewriting the history of the alphabet. An archaeological team, led jointly by Johns Hopkins University and the University of Amsterdam, was excavating a tomb in a mortuary complex in Umm el-Marra, in northern Syria, and stumbled upon a collection of…