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Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 16:21 AFP — Syria's defence ministry announced a four-day ceasefire with Kurdish forces on Tuesday, after an understanding was reached between the two sides on the future of the Kurdish-majority Hasakeh region.

Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 16:07 AFP — Mazloum Abdi, head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, urged a US-led international coalition to take responsibility for protecting facilities holding Islamic State group members in Syria after his forces withdrew from several.

Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 16:05 AFP — US envoy Tom Barrack said on Tuesday that the existence of a friendly government in Damascus meant the reason for Washington's alliance with Syrian Kurds against the Islamic State group had "largely expired".

Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 16:01 AFP — Syria's presidency announced on Tuesday an understanding with the Kurds over the fate of Kurdish-majority areas of their stronghold of Hasakeh province in the country's northeast.

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Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 15:11 AFP — Nadia Murad, a prominent rights activist and Yazidi survivor of sexual slavery at the hands of the Islamic State group, condemned on Tuesday what she said was the world's abandonment of the Kurds in Syria.

Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 14:33 AFP — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Tuesday they had to withdraw from northeast Syria's Al-Hol camp, which holds thousands of relatives of Islamic State group jihadists, after the army accused them of abandoning the site.