The Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee demanded that perpetrators of massacres in Aleppo be held accountable and called on the interim government to protect citizens' rights rather than violate them, according to a post on Telegram channel @azazad313 in the past 29 minutes between 8:16 PM and 8:45 PM UTC on January 13, 2026. In a separate development during the same period, Shams Channel, broadcasting from the Kurdistan region of Iraq, apologized for failing to air a previously announced interview with Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, citing technical and logistical reasons, as reported by VeSyria on X linking to verify-sy.com. The Shams Channel announcement followed its earlier promotion of the interview, which was canceled on the scheduled date.
