Residents from every neighborhood in Qamishli carried out night security shifts on January 23, 2026, as Rojava fully mobilized with self-defense units fighting ISIS and HTS on front lines, according to RISEUP4R0JAVA on X during the 29-minute reporting window ending at 12:45 PM UTC. A post by starrcongress on X in the same period praised mothers aged 7 to 70 for teaching resistance and standing with Rojava. This follows a reported one-month ceasefire extension between the Damascus government and SDF in northeast Syria, as stated by a Kurdish-led official to Rudaw earlier at 12:15 PM UTC. Syrian Civil Defense teams worked overnight to remove snow and clear roads in the Afrin region of northern Aleppo countryside, Levant_24_ reported on X during the reporting window. In southern Syria, security forces arrested a man in Nawa, northwest Daraa, who purchased stolen electrical cables and melted them into aluminum and copper ingots, seizing hundreds, QalaatAlMudiq posted on X, quoting a similar Douma incident. Protesters gathered today at Karama Square in Suwayda city displaying pro-Israel symbols, opposing US envoy Barrack, and labeling anti-Hijri Druze figures as traitors, according to another QalaatAlMudiq post on X in the reporting window. The Syrian Network for Missing Persons posted on X about national efforts to reveal fates of the missing, preserve victims' rights, and handle mass grave sites.
