Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 16:07

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — YPJ release a video of a fighter vowing "they will make Raqqa a fortress of resistance."

✍️ They wouldn't be the first to do that, last time it was them breaking through the fortress, and they had international support to do it. This time, they're fighting the same people under a different banner, without international support, so how likely is this going to take place?

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 15:40

🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Battles are starting at the Shaddadi Gas Plant, under SDF control.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 14:50

⚡️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱🇯🇴❌🇮🇷 — This morning, the USAF has conducted a CORONET East deployment from the United Kingdom to the Middle East, amidst ongoing military buildup in lights of an upcoming strike on Iran.

12 "F-15E" Strike Eagle Aircrafts from the "48th" Fighter Wing at "RAF Lakenheath" under call signs TABOR 71-76 & TABOR 81-86, supported by 4 "KC-135R" Tankers from the "100th" Air Refuelling Wing at "RAF Mildenall" departed en route to what seems to be the "Muwaffaq Salti" Air Base in Jordan.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 13:31

🇸🇾🇸🇾 ❌ 🇸🇾 — Militias are beginning to move in the Tel Abyad region, signalling activation of the Tel Abyad front against the SDF in the far north of Syria.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 12:29

🇸🇾🇸🇾 ❌ 🇸🇾— Battles have begun in Raqqa, as Bedouin tribes inside the city have picked up arms and started fighting SDF soldiers!

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 11:19

🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Al-Shaddadi, south of Al-Hasakah, has fell to the Bedouin tribes.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 10:54

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian army continues to cross the Euphrates River on the Deir ez-Zor front.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 10:16

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Netanyahu orders the acceleration of Arrow-3 interceptors production.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 09:15

🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Tribes affiliated with the SDF in Markadah have defected.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 09:06

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Syrian army and Arab tribes have taken control of the city of Tabqa, footage show the fighters taking off the SDF flag from the city.

Geopolitics Watch

17 January 2026 23:47

📝 Note:
Sami Nasman, the to-be head of Interior Security was a former PA Intelligence officer (GIS) with vocal Anti-Hamas sentiment, interrogated and then deported from Gaza by Hamas following the 2007 civil war victory.

Geopolitics Watch

17 January 2026 22:32

⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 - The IDF is to receive 3 new “F-35I Adir” Stealth fighter jets at the “Nevatim” airbase tomorrow.

This will raise the IAF’s “F-35” fleet to 48 aircraft’s.

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 01:58

📝 An attempted bribe by Maria Corina Machado to give her control of Venezuela, no doubt. We'll see if it works.

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 01:44

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱📁 — Representative Thomas Massie:

Psst, Denmark...

Tell this administration the Epstein files are in Greenland... they'll lose all interest and will never be able to find it.

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 01:08

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — A U.S. source to Axios:

Eventually the Iranian regime will go down unless the Supreme Leader speaks directly to President Trump.

He doesn't trust that anyone else in their system has the authority to actually negotiate.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 16:00

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾— SDF official media release a stolen video from Afghanistan, claiming it to be from them today.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 15:11

🇩🇪🤝🇺🇸❌🇬🇱– Bild reports that the German government has quietly withdrawn the troops it had sent to Greenland

➡️This comes after US President Trump imposed tariffs on members who sent troops to Greenland

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 14:27

🇸🇾🇸🇾 ❌ 🇸🇾 — Men, women, children and elderly being freed from SDF prisons in Raqqah.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 13:15

🇸🇾🇸🇾 ❌ 🇸🇾— Chaos has descended upon ar-Raqqah, with tribal militiamen shooting at SDF positions across the city.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 11:57

🇸🇾🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾🇺🇸 — SDF head Mazloom Abdi reportedly arrived in Damascus in order to meet Ahmad al-Sharaa and US Envoy Tom Barracks.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 11:15

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — More videos of these equipment transfers over rafts.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 10:45

🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — Abdan village, south of Al-Hasakah has been captured by Arab tribal forces rebelling against the SDF.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 09:19

#BREAKING
🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The Syrian army and the Arab tribes have took control of Al-Omar field, the Al-Tanak, Koniko, and Al-Jafra fields which are among the most important and strategical fields in Syria.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 09:12

🇸🇾🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — The SDF fighters have blown up two bridges crossing the Euphrates river in an attempt to block Syrian army and tribal fighters from crossing to the Eastern side of the river.

Geopolitics Watch

18 January 2026 00:51

🇸🇾❌🇸🇾 — General Situation in Syria as of midnight (17/1/26-18/1/26)

➡️An agreement was reached where the SDF would withdraw from Dayr Hafir and Maskaneh, which resulted in the succesful and smooth withdrawal from the aforementioned areas. However, upon reaching the area of Dibsi Afnan, an incident occurred. SDF says the Syrian Army continued to advance beyond what was agreed upon, and it resulted in clashes. Syrian government says rogue elements of the SDF launched an attack on Syrian Army positions.

➡️In either case, this resulted in the scope of the operation widening to include all areas south and west of the Euphrates.
SAA units advanced towards Tabqa and the airbase from the south and west, while an advance occurred on the Resafa axis from the south, and further advances on the Ghanem Ali axis were launched from the east. Tribal uprisings were recorded in Tabqa city which further complicated SDF defense of the city, including tribal fighters seizing the south side of the Tabqa Dam from the SDF. Tribal uprisings were also reported in Safsafsah and Khudajran on the north side of the Euphrates, with both villages coming under local control. After brief and sporadic clashes, the entire southern bank of the Euphrates was brought under SAA control, with the two enbankment dams and their bridges also coming under SAA control, and reports of clashes on the bridge leading into Raqqa city. Also reported was mass defections of SDF fighters and SDF-affiliated tribes to the Syrian government.

➡️Meanwhile, there were revolts launched by Arab tribal fighters on the north side of the Euphrates with clashes reported in Raqqa City, and several villages to the west of Raqqa city were captured by local forces aligned with the Syrian government. In Deir ez-Zor, the situation is even more critical as Arab tribal fighters launched an uprising in the reegion of Dhiban and Gharanij. The SDF initially abandoned their positions in the area, but reinforcements arrived for a counterattack. Still, the Arab tribals managed to seize a few villages and are calling on the government to cross the river in support of the revolt, and reports emerged of Syrian government soldiers crossing the river and being present in Gharanij.

Geopolitics Watch

17 January 2026 23:47

⚡️🇵🇸 - The former Deputy Minister of Transportation for the PA, Ali Shaath, has been appointed the head of the NCAG, the temporary technocratic committee which will govern Gaza. Shaath, alongside 14 other members selected by the PJOR are tasked with reconstructing Gaza, headed by Bulgarian diplomat Nikolai Mladneov on behalf of the Board of Peace.

The selected members of the committee [click to expand]:

- Economy and industry: Ayed Abu Ramadan, the current head of the Gaza Chamber of Commerce.
- Telecommunications: Omar Shalami.
- Finance: Bashir AlRais.
- Housing: Osama AlSaawi.
- Health: A'ed Yaghi Health.
- Education: Jaber AlDabour.
- Municipal affairs & Water: Ali Barhoum.
- Agriculture: Abdulkarim Ashour.
- Judiciary: Mohammad Bseiso.
- Land Authority: Arabi Abu Shaaban.
- Religious Affairs: Rami Halas.
- Tribal Affairs: Husni AlMughni.
- Social and Women's affairs: Hana Tarazi.
- Interior Security: Sami Nasman.

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 02:09

❗️🇱🇧 Damage at the “Sahmar Official Primary School” following Israeli airstrikes on the town of Sahmar in southern Lebanon.

🔴 @alsaa_plus_EN

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 01:56

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — President Trump confirms Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gave her Nobel Peace Prize to him.

Geopolitics Watch

16 January 2026 01:31

🇺🇸🇻🇪 — Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado reportedly gave her Nobel Peace Prize to President Trump during their lunch today, and Trump accepted it.

Geopolitics Watch

15 January 2026 22:33

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - "Yediot Ahronot", the Hebrew news outlet states:

The ongoing assassinations in Hamas indicate Israel's determination to proceed with disarming the movement, and that it is required to implement Trump's plan under fire.