🇸🇾⚡- 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.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "We have engaged extensively with the Syrian Government and SDF leadership to secure an integration agreement, signed on January 18, and to set a clear pathway for timely and peaceful implementation.

The deal integrates SDF fighters into the national military (as individuals, which remains among the most contentious issues), hand over key infrastructure (oil fields, dams, border crossings), and cede control of ISIS prisons and camps to Damascus," - 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;

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," - US Envoy Tom Barrack.

🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡- "The US has no interest in long-term military presence; it prioritizes defeating ISIS remnants, supporting reconciliation, and advancing national unity without endorsing separatism or federalism," - US Envoy Tom Barrack.

🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government announces a four day ceasefire effective from 8pm tonight, local time, to give the SDF an opportunity to implement the new Damascus-SDF deal.

🇪🇺🇺🇸⚡️- The European Union has frozen the procedure to sign last year's trade agreement with the USA.

🇪🇺🇺🇸⚡️- The social-democrats (S&D) and conservative members (EPP) of the EU Parliament have reached an agreement to support the freeze of all EU-US trade negotiations alongside the indefinite freeze of the ratification of the 2025 trade agreement.

Even certain members of the far-right groups (PfE/ECR) are supporting this measure according to various statements.

🇪🇺🇺🇸⚡️ – European parties have yet to reach an agreement on further measures.

The right-wing PPE group has refused to join the initiative to trigger the EU's anti-coercion measures, which would limit U.S. companies' access to the European market. The measures are currently supported only by left-wing groups and centrists from Renew Europe, after Emmanuel Macron openly advocated for their use.