In January 2026, northern Syria descended into a tragic darkness as the Kurdish community, once a strategic ally of the West in the fight against terrorism, suffered a systematic massacre under the impassive gaze of the international community.
This ethnic cleansing, marked by summary executions and widespread looting, was accompanied by unprecedented security chaos following the mass release of thousands of ISIS prisoners, whose detention camps had been abandoned or stormed during recent offensives.
The diplomatic paradox of this early year has reached its peak with the brutal normalization of the new Syrian regime: despite a documented and proven past as a jihadist, the current Syrian president was received with honors in Paris, Washington, and Moscow, demonstrating a cynical geopolitical shift where the apparent stability of the Levant now takes precedence over human rights principles.
In the deafening silence of Western powers, Kurdish women are paying the heaviest price, becoming the targets of atrocious gender-based violence where rape is used as a weapon of war to break the resistance of a people in retreat.
Civilian infrastructure is being systematically devastated, forcing tens of thousands of refugees to flee to closed borders, illustrating the moral bankruptcy of a world order which, in 2026, appears to have definitively sacrificed its former protectors to accommodate new autocrats, leaving behind a land of ashes where the cry of the victims no longer finds any echo in international chancelleries.