US Envoy Tom Barrack:

In Syria, the United States is focused on: 1) ensuring the security of prison facilities holding ISIS prisoners, currently guarded by the SDF; and 2) facilitating talks between the SDF and the Syrian Government to allow for the peaceful integration of the SDF and the political inclusion of Syria’s Kurdish population into a historic full Syrian citizenship.

BREAKING: Syrian Army:

We announce a ceasefire in all operational sectors of the Syrian Arab Army, effective from 20:00 this evening, Tuesday, 20 January 2026.

This decision will remain in effect for four days from its date, in commitment to the understandings announced by the Syrian state with the SDF, and in pursuit of the success of the national efforts being made.

The Ministry of Defense affirms that it will remain the shield of the Syrian people in all their components, and that it will spare no effort in this path, in a manner that preserves the security and stability of the Syrian community in its entirety.

Canadian PM Mark Carney:

Great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.

You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.

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Canadian PM Mark Carney:

If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interest, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.

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Canadian PM Mark Carney:

In the past few days, we have concluded new strategic partnerships with China and Qatar.

We are negotiating free trade pacts with India, ASEAN, Thailand, Philippines, and Mercosur.

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Carney: We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark…

Audience applauds.

Trump will make a speech here tomorrow.

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Canadian PM Mark Carney:

Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland.

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Canadian PM Mark Carney:

We know that the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it.

Nostalgia is not a strategy. We believe from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, more just.

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Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

I would like to confirm that they (US) are an ally, but then they have to behave like an ally.

Lukashenko has signed a document on Belarus’s accession to the “Board of Peace.”

Trump:

If I didn’t come along, there would be no NATO right now!!!

It would have been in the ash heap of History. Sad, but TRUE!!!

Several European countries are reconsidering their involvement in a U.S.-led coordination centre for Gaza, saying it has failed to boost humanitarian aid or shape post-war policy.

The Civil-Military Coordination Centre (CMCC), set up in southern Israel in October under Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, was meant to oversee the truce, facilitate aid and plan Gaza’s future.

But diplomats say progress has been minimal, with some European officials not returning after the holidays and privately calling the centre “directionless.”

Source: Reuters

Another “interesting” repost from Trump on Truth Social.

EU’s Kaja Kallas:

The Iranian authorities’ brutal repression is unacceptable.

The EU already has sweeping sanctions on Iran in place.

We are working on new sanctions.

Trump to NYP:

Oh, we did a good job with Syria. They had a prison break. European prisoners were breaking and I got it stopped. That was yesterday.

European terrorists were in prison. They had a prison break. And working with the government of Syria and the new leader of Syria, they captured all the prisoners, put them back to jail, and these were the worst terrorists in the world, all from Europe.

Türkiye’s Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler and U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke by phone on January 20, 2026.

During the call, they discussed bilateral relations as well as regional defense and security issues, with a particular focus on developments in Syria.

NEW: Keir Starmer is expected to reject Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace.”

Source: FT

Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

We cannot rule out anything when it is said on the other side that he would like to own and take over Greenland.

Pro-Netanyahu Israeli Channel 14 celebrates the first anniversary of Trump’s return to the White House, with on-air dancing to “YMCA.”

NEW: Syrian Internal Security Forces are restoring order in al-Hol camp east of al-Hasakah after the Syrian Army secured the area, following the YPG/SDF’s withdrawal and abandonment of the camp.

Source: SANA

Macron on Trump’s tariff threats:

Everyone should remain calm. We shouldn’t let ourselves be intimidated.