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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…

Syria Begins Oil Extraction at Newly Secured Fields The Syrian Petroleum Company has begun extracting oil from newly secured fields, sending production to the Homs and Baniyas refineries, according to Reuters. Among the newly seized sites is the al-Omar oilfield, the country’s largest, which fell under government control following a…

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BEIRUT (AP) — Recent fighting between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria got close to detention facilities where thousands of Islamic State group members are held. The U.S. military says that it has started the process of transferring many of them to secure locations in Iraq. Syrian…

Jan. 23, 2026, 11:44 AM EST Listen to this article with a free account Longtime American allies who have been guarding tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters and their families agreed this week to be integrated into the Syrian armed forces. While the deal marks a major victory for…