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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

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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…

A UN humanitarian convoy arrived Sunday in the Kurdish-majority town of Kobane, which has been filled recently with people displaced by clashes in northern Syria, a spokesperson told AFP. Earlier Sunday, Syria's military said it had opened a humanitarian corridor to the town, also known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic…

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By: Qassim Abdul-zahra And Kareem Chehayeb, The Associated Press Posted: 5:53 AM CST Sunday, Jan. 25, 2026 BAGHDAD (AP) — Baghdad will prosecute and try militants from the Islamic State group who are being transferred from prisons and detention camps in neighboring Syria to Iraq under a U.S.-brokered deal, Iraq…

Protesters took to the streets in Cardiff to call for action after horrific violence in Syria and Iran. 20:05, 24 Jan 2026 Updated 20:38, 24 Jan 2026 Hundreds of people took to the streets in Cardiff today in two separate protests against violence in Syria and Iran. More than over…

Turkey's pro-Kurdish DEM party on Saturday called for the blockade on the Kurdish-majority city of Kobane in northern Syria to be lifted immediately, warning of a "humanitarian tragedy". The situation in Kobane had escalated from a crisis into a "deadly catastrophe", DEM said after sending a delegation to visit northeastern…