For today, links to reports from National Public Radio and Mintpress News; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (GAZA, WEST BANK, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM JAN. 23  Fighting between rival factions in Syria threatens its fragile stability. Reported by Jane Arraf | NPR  Fighting between Syrian Kurds — who a decade ago clawed out an autonomous territory in the country’s northeast — and Turkish-backed militias is posing a serious threat to the current stability. Click HERE to listen and read.

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FROM JAN. 23  Israel isn’t leaving Syria: Settlement plans signal a permanent land grab, by Jessica Buxbaum | Mintpress News / Popular Resistance  Within hours of the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria last Dec. 8, Israeli forces seized the buffer zone separating the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. More than a month later . . . READ MORE . . .