Kurdish nationals demonstrate in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 18, 2026, protesting the Syrian military's takeover of Kurdish-held territory in northeastern Syria. Protesters chanted slogans denouncing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a terrorist and calling for a free Kurdistan. Syrian government forces, aided by tribal militias, seized control of wide swathes of Kurdish-held land over the weekend, including the former ISIS stronghold of Raqqa and strategically important oil fields, forcing the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces into retreat from areas they had controlled for more than a decade.
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