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Events
- January 6 - Kazakh Security Council Chairman Nursultan Nazarbayev declares a state of emergency after riots break out across Kazakhstan. He is subsequently forced to resign from his post.
- January 7 - Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan are sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
- January 15 - Malik Akram takes four congregants hostage at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, triggering an eleven hour standoff until an FBI team storms the synagogue and kills him.
- January 20 - A car bombing at a prison in al-Hasakah, Syria, triggers a riot and mass escape involving hundreds of Islamic State detainees. Fighting begins as they attempt to gain control of the city and take 23 hostages.
- January 26 - Syrian and American forces suppress the Islamic State uprising in al-Hasakah.
- February 3 - ISIL Caliph Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi is killed during a U.S. counterterrorism operation in Atme near the Syrian-Turkish border.
Deaths
Villain deaths
- January 1 - Calisto Tanzi
- January 10 - Robert Durst
- January 15 - Malik Akram
- January 20 - Russell Bishop
- February 3 - Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
Victim deaths
- January 12 - Ashling Murphy
- January 14 - Kristal Bayron-Nieves