Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 15:17 AFP —

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 15:08 AFP — Kurdish authorities in northern Syria on Saturday ordered a curfew for the Raqa region "until further notice", as government forces advanced and threatened to bomb sites in the area.

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 14:08 AFP — Kurdish authorities in north and northeastern Syria on Saturday ordered a curfew for the Raqa region "until further notice", as government forces advanced and threatened to bomb sites in the area.

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 13:38 AFP —

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 11:00 AFP — Kurdish-led forces in Syria said an attack by government forces killed several of their fighters on Saturday, accusing Damascus of not respecting a deadline under a withdrawal deal east of Aleppo struck after recent clashes.

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 10:50 AFP —

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 10:29 AFP — Syria's army said Saturday that its forces had taken control of swathes of the region east of Aleppo city after Kurdish forces agreed to withdraw following recent clashes.

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 09:33 AFP — Syria's army said two soldiers were killed Saturday in an attack by Kurdish forces as the military deployed in an area east of Aleppo after Kurdish personnel agreed to withdraw.

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 09:21 AFP —

Saturday, 17 January, 2026 , 09:15 AFP — US special envoy Tom Barrack and the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, arrived in Erbil on Saturday for a meeting, a source in the presidency of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region told AFP.