🇨🇭⚡️- U.N. leader Antonio Guterres has cancelled his attendance to the WEF in Davos because of a "big cold".

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Russia's Africa Corps accidently drone struck a vehicle belonging to Samou, wife of Kidal's mayor Arbakane ag-Abzayak. The incident has caused outrage in Malian public and army. Russian intelligence mistook the vehicle to Tuareg separatists, FLA.

🇸🇾⚡- Syrian troops have captured the city of Sarrin, with the SDF losing the entirety of the M4 Highway, Ayn al-Arab direction, northern Syria.

The fate of Qereqozak is unknown, as both sides lay claim to it, which likely means it's in grey zone.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Clashes along the Baloch border of Afghanistan-Pakistan between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistani forces.

🇸🇾⚡- BREAKING: Damascus and the SDF announce a new deal, which will come into force from 8pm tonight, local time:

- The SDF to create a detailed plan on the integration of the al-Hasakah region.

- Syrian forces will not enter Qamishli, al-Hasakah and other Kurdish-majority cities and towns.

- SDF Chief Mazloum Abdi to nominate candidates for the roles of deputy defense minister and al-Hasakah regional governor.

- The integration of the SDF into the Syrian army.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "The greatest opportunity for the Kurds in Syria right now lies in the post-Assad transition under the new government led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This moment offers a pathway to full integration into a unified Syrian state with citizenship rights, cultural protections, and political participation— long denied under Bashar al-Assad’s regime, where many Kurds faced statelessness, language restrictions, and systemic discrimination," - US Envoy Tom Barrack.

🇺🇸🇸🇾🇷🇺⚡- "Historically, the US military presence in northeastern Syria was justified primarily as a counter-ISIS partnership. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by Kurds, proved the most effective ground partner in defeating ISIS’s territorial caliphate by 2019, detaining thousands of ISIS fighters and family members in prisons and camps like al-Hol and al-Shaddadi.

At that time, there was no functioning central Syrian state to partner with—the Assad regime was weakened, contested, and not a viable partner against ISIS due to its alliances with Iran and Russia," - US Envoy Tom Barrack.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "Today, the situation has fundamentally changed. Syria now has an acknowledged central government that has joined the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, signaling a westward pivot and cooperation with the US on counterterrorism.

This shifts the rationale for the US-SDF partnership: the original purpose of the SDF as the primary anti-ISIS force on the ground has largely expired, as Damascus is now both willing and positioned to take over security responsibilities, including control of ISIS detention facilities and camps," - US Envoy Tom Barrack.