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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been sending out urgent messages stating that they are currently under attack at Shaddadi prison in Hasaka Province, which holds thousands of the most dangerous Islamic State prisoners. Reports from the ground indicate that the attack is being led by Syrian government forces and supported by various Islamist extremist groups operating in the area, including Al-Qaeda.

Syria’s current leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as al-Julani), was previously an Al-Qaeda figure before attempting to rebrand himself as a head of state. A local observer said forces loyal to the al-Sharaa government attacked in order to liberate “their sons” from Syrian Democratic Forces custody.

The SDF requested assistance from the U.S.-led international coalition, which is only about a mile and a half away from the prison, but the coalition did not respond. Local residents now fear that “the United States and its allies have an interest in giving Islamic State a free hand again in Syria.”

Simultaneously, there are reports of attacks on civilians in and around Kobane, which sits directly on the Turkey–Syria border, about 150 miles from Shaddadi prison.

According to the SDF, its forces repelled multiple assaults but suffered heavy losses, with dozens of fighters killed. The group said it repeatedly requested assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, but no intervention came. At the same time, the SDF reported clashes near the Al-Aqtan prison outside Raqqa, another major ISIS detention facility, warning that any takeover could trigger renewed chaos and a resurgence of terrorism.

Syria’s defense ministry denied attacking the prisons, claiming government forces were deployed only to secure Al-Aqtan and its surroundings and had not entered Shaddadi prison. The SDF reported additional casualties around Al-Aqtan, including nine fighters killed and twenty wounded.

After recent negotiations, and amid renewed fighting, Syrian forces loyal to Ahmed al-Sharaa and the Damascus government quickly moved into vacated territory, tightening control across northern and eastern Syria and strengthening al-Sharaa’s rule. In Raqqa, government internal security forces and military police established checkpoints overnight and cleared the city of remaining Syrian Democratic Forces fighters.

At Shaddadi prison, the SDF reported losing control of the facility after attacks by Damascus-affiliated factions, claiming guards were killed and some beheaded. The Syrian army acknowledged that dozens of ISIS inmates escaped.

Reports also indicated that other detention facilities in Raqqa, including Taameer prison and a juvenile center, may have been emptied or compromised amid the chaos.

The situation around Kobani has further heightened fears. Under the terms of the new agreement, Kobani was meant to be secured by a local force drawn from its residents. However, tensions remain high as Damascus seeks to centralize authority. Despite the announced ceasefire, the SDF has accused government forces of continued pressure and provocations against Kurdish-held areas. Turkey has publicly praised the Syrian army’s offensive, adding regional pressure on Kobani and other border communities.

The agreement, signed on January 18, 2026, between interim leader al-Sharaa and the SDF, called for an immediate halt to hostilities, the withdrawal of SDF forces east of the Euphrates, and the transfer of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor to Damascus.

It also stipulated the integration of SDF personnel into the Syrian ministries of defense and interior following security vetting, and the transfer of full legal and security responsibility for ISIS detention facilities, including Al-Hawl, to the Syrian government.

Turkey has not launched a large-scale ground invasion, but it has maintained sustained military pressure through drone strikes and artillery, even as a ceasefire was being finalized. On January 18, the Syrian Democratic Forces reported that Turkish drones carried out an airstrike on Mount Kazwan, also known as Abdulaziz Mountain, south of Hasakah. The strike was reportedly accompanied by artillery fire.

Additional reports from January 17–18 indicated multiple Turkish drone strikes, including Bayraktar systems, targeting SDF positions near Maskanah and Tabqa in eastern Aleppo province. These strikes occurred at the height of the Syrian government’s offensive, shortly before the ceasefire was signed.

The SDF and local monitors have also reported that Turkish drones provided aerial surveillance and operational support to Syrian army ground units and allied tribal factions during their advance into Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.

To recap: America’s ally, the Syrian Kurds, are being attacked by the Damascus government and Al-Qaeda-linked forces to free ISIS prisoners from jails, while a U.S. NATO ally, Turkey, is providing fire support.

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Minnesota transgender State Rep. Leigh Finke called on leftists to storm more churches in protest of ICE.

Far-left anti-ICE protestors stormed Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday.

Former CNN host Don Lemon livestreamed the crime.

Parishioners and children were terrified as leftists, led by BLM activist Nikema Armstrong shouted down the pastor.

WATCH:

The Justice Department is currently investigating for potential violations of the federal FACE Act.

“The FACE Act is a long-standing federal statute that prohibits force, threats, obstruction, any kind of interference with a religious place of worship. And it carries criminal penalties and violations,” DOJ official Alina Habba said on Monday.

However, Leigh Finke said anti-ICE protestors must continue to storm churches until “ICE is out of our state.”

Full statement from Leigh Finke:

Yesterday protesters disrupted services at Cities Church in Saint Paul, where the leader of the local I.C.E. office also serves as pastor.

The protest has caused outrage, promises of retribution and prosecution, and the usual round of upset. But it has had me thinking for the past 24 hours of the actions of Act Up and WHAM, in 1989, who staged a die in and protest in St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. An action that similarly brought condemnation during a time when an out of control crisis was left to its destruction for far too long.

Actions like this—nonviolent resistance in the face of government inaction or oppression—are essential. And they must continue until I.C.E. is out of our state, the administration is out of the White House, and dignity and humanity for all of our neighbors is achieved.

Today is Martin Luther King Jr Day in America. Dr. King knew that injustice must be confronted. He knew the moral conscience of the nation must be made to hear the desperate plight of those who are suffering. He knew that the only way to achieve this at national scale was for people to rise up together in nonviolent revolution until all were free.

So did Act UP, and so do the people of Minneapolis. I.C.E. OUT

Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Fink is calling on people to continue disrupting churches in Minnesota until ICE is out.https://t.co/VEEVYk5CNB pic.twitter.com/zRfXzE3Mk2

— JLR© (@JLRINVESTIGATES) January 19, 2026

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In a stunning display of cowardice and calculated sabotage, two Presidents of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) failed to appear at a critical high-stakes summit at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, leaving an “empty chair” at the table with senior U.S. power brokers.

The diplomatic no-show is being hailed by insiders not as a logistical failure, but as the final proof that Haiti’s government has been fully captured by a “Cartel Bureaucracy” intent on running out the clock and seizing indefinite power.

The meeting was set to be the decisive moment to end the gang-fueled anarchy consuming the Caribbean nation, a crisis that has driven waves of mass migration toward the U.S. border.

Instead, the Haitian delegation crumbled. Sources close to the transition confirm that Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé—allegedly linked to narco-trafficking interests—mobilized his administrative machinery to block the delegation from leaving Port-au-Prince.

The absence of Haiti’s nominal leaders at Mar-a-Lago exposes a terrifying reality that U.S. intelligence agencies have privately feared: The CPT is no longer in charge. It is being strangled by a shadow alliance between Prime Minister Fils-Aimé and criminal political elements such as Nenel Cassy, a notorious figure in Port-au-Prince often referred to as a “ganglord in a suit.”

Cassy is not merely a politician; he is a renowned criminal operator in the capital. He was previously arrested and charged with running a sophisticated kidnapping ring that terrorized Port-au-Prince.

However, in a shocking display of judicial capture, intelligence reports delivered to Mar-a-Lago allege that Prime Minister Fils-Aimé used his executive leverage to coerce the justice system into releasing Cassy.

By forcing the release of the man responsible for a kidnapping ring, Fils-Aimé secured a violent ally to do the government’s dirty work. It is a pincer movement: Fils-Aimé holds the pen, and Cassy—now free thanks to the Prime Minister—holds the gun.

The goal of this “Fils-Aimé/Cassy” axis? A slow-roll to February 7th.

Under the current transition charter, the CPT’s mandate expires next month. Sources confirm Fils-Aimé’s plan is to stall all progress, force the CPT to dissolve into irrelevance, and emerge on February 8th as the sole, unchecked dictator of Haiti—ruled by decree and backed by the kidnapping networks Cassy and his allies control.

The double no-show has confirmed the worst fears of the America First security establishment: Haiti is no longer a failing state; it is a captured state. Analysis of the current crisis outlines the mechanics of the “Deadlock by Design” strategy used by Fils-Aimé to keep the U.S. paralyzed while gangs expand their territory.

The message delivered to the U.S. administration was clear: The CPT is broken. The Prime Minister is compromised. The only remaining option is an immediate dismissal of the corrupt Fils-Aimé government and the installation of a neutral technocratic government with no ties to the political gangs and their extended network.

The empty chairs at Mar-a-Lago scream louder than any diplomat could. They signal that the current Haitian leadership has no interest in solutions, only in survival.

As the February 7th deadline looms, the question for Washington is no longer how to support the Haitian government, but how to bypass it entirely before a narco-dictatorship sets up shop just 700 miles from the Florida coast.

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