BARCELONA, Spain: The European Union on Wednesday announced updated guidance for asylum claims by Syrian nationals that reflects new conditions in Syria a year after the fall of the Bashar Assad. The modifications may affect the outcomes of asylum claims for around 110,000 Syrians who were still awaiting a decision at the end of September.
Military service evaders and opponents of Assad “are no longer at risk of persecution,” according to the European Union Agency for Asylum. However, the agency stated that members of the Alawites, Christians, and Druze ethnic-religious groups, as well as anyone connected to the past regime, would be deemed vulnerable in the post-Assad Syria.
The 27 EU member states, as well as Norway and Switzerland, are informed by the agency’s guidelines, while decisions regarding asylum claims are taken at the national level. The purpose is to develop greater cohesion across the 29 nations giving international protection.
Nearly half a million people were killed and half of the 23 million people who lived in Syria before the conflict were displaced. The violence started in March 2011. Over 5 million Syrians left their homeland as refugees. While the majority sought asylum in neighbouring countries like Turkiye, many also fled to Europe, contributing to the global refugee crisis in 2015.
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