The Petersburg Post

Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 - Territorial gains in northeast Syria, where government forces have retaken the cities of Raqqa and Deir Az Zor from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have been a boon to President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Negotiations with the SDF have been ongoing since the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime in December 2024 over the integration of the main Kurdish representative in Syria into the Syrian armed forces. ...

Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 - Sir Keir Starmer has said he "will not yield" to pressure from Donald Trump over the future of Greenland, after the US president attacked the UK's Chagos Islands deal. Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said the US president had criticised the Chagos deal after previously saying he supported it "for the express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on ...

Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 - United States President Donald Trump's plane has been forced to make a U-turn about an hour after departing its base for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Air Force One, carrying the president, his entourage and reporters, returned to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland shortly after 11:00pm (04:00 GMT) on Tuesday night, owing to a "minor electrical issue", said White House Press Secretary Karoline ...

Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 - Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has seized a seventh tanker transporting oil from Venezuela, as the Trump administration seeks to control the nation's oil exports and revenue. The tanker, identified as motor vessel Sagitta, was captured by U.S. military forces Tuesday morning, U.S. Southern Command said in a statement, saying the operation was conducted "without incident." The Sagitta is a U.S. sanctioned ...

Wednesday, Jan 21st, 2026 - Crews began bulldozing the United Nations Relief and Works Agency 's offices in Sheikh Jarrah and fired tear gas at a vocational school in Qalandia, marking Israel's latest and most dramatic step against UNRWA. Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with a crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering humanitarian services to ...

Tuesday, Jan 20th, 2026 - London - Despite fears of Chinese spying and hacking, the British government gave the go-ahead Tuesday for China to build a massive new embassy in the heart of London. The mega-embassy's designs will see it occupy an entire city block with a view of The Shard, Britain's tallest building on the banks of the Thames. It will be China's biggest embassy in Europe. The U.K. government's decision ended a saga that began ...