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A last-minute Syria-Israel agreement driven by US urgency will remain susceptible to collapse under the weight of Netanyahu’s “peace through force” doctrine, @HaidHaid22 writes.
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Image: Israeli aims in southern Syria mapped by @TheStudyofWar .
UK asylum figures for the latest year saw applications by Syrian nationals up 46% to 6,175, but the latest quarter, January to March 2025, saw the overall number of Syrian claims fall by 81%, down to 443 compared to 2,280 in October to December 2024.
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From our archive seven years ago, a special issue on reconstruction and human rights.
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A different time, but all these years later, for most the work has yet to begin.
ALT Cover of Syria Notes no. 23, Summer 2018.
ALT Syria, map of control, May 2018.
ALT Syrian Legal Development Programme event on reconstruction and human rights at Chatham House, 2018.
ALT Syrian Legal Development Programme event on reconstruction and human rights at Chatham House, 2018.
Trump meets Syrian president, says he is looking into normalising ties
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For the latest issue of Syria Notes, our cover painting shows Marjeh Square in Damascus, where many families have posted pictures of their missing relatives, hoping to learn something of their fate.
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Invasion timeline
For our latest issue, as part of our look at Syrian independent media, we drew on reporting by Enab Baladi for a timeline of Israel’s advance into Syria beyond the 1974 ceasefire lines.
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Map: New Israeli bases in Syria since 8 December.
The second question comes from Mark Pritchard, @MPritchardUK, with concerns about Syria’s interim constitutional declaration.
David Lammy responds: “… Clearly the recent violence that we saw was incredibly horrific and alarming. We will continue to work with the new government as best we can to ensure the inclusive political decision that we all want to see.”
The first question is from Fabian Hamilton, @FabianLeedsNE, on recent sectarian killings.
During Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development questions today in the House of Commons, two questions on Syria.
First remarks by Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy:
And if the sectoral sanctions are fully lifted, what is the potential for Syria’s economic future? “I think the potential is huge,” @vittoriomaresc1 says.“The Syrian people are rich in terms of human capital.”
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Measures against individuals or organisations can be targeted — sectoral sanctions are indiscriminate.
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“The UK should be lifting all of its sectoral sanctions against Syria,” Eyad Hamid of @SyrianLDP says.
The US and EU have been slow to lift sanctions, and the UK even slower.
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“The Europeans have taken steps on sanctions slightly in advance of us,” Hamish Falconer admitted to the House of Commons on March 10th, “they relaxed their sanctions before we did.”
“I see no basis for the sanctions against Syria as a country,” Simon Collis told the Foreign Affairs Committee.
He rejected an incremental approach, “as if it is a dial that you can fine tune.”
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Simon Collis was last UK ambassador, leaving Syria in 2012.
