EUAA COI Report. Country Focus

The purpose of this report is to provide relevant information for the assessment of applications for international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and in particular for use in updating EUAA’s country guidance document on Syria.

The report covers the period of September 2023 – August 2024, and provides a limited update of selected sections previously addressed in the EUAA COI reports: Syria – Country Focus (October 2023), Syria - Targeting of individuals (September 2022) as well as an update of the EUAA COI report: Syria - Socio-economic situation in Damascus city (September 2022).

This report should be read in conjunction with the EUAA COI report: Syria – Security situation (October 2024).

The drafting of this report was finalised on 30 September 2024. Any event taking place after this date is not included in this report.

This report was jointly drafted by the EUAA COI Sector together with:

- Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation (ACCORD).

The following departments and organisations have reviewed parts of this report:

- Czech Republic, Department for Asylum and Migration Policy;

- Denmark, Danish Immigration Service;

- France, Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA), Information, Documentation and Research Division

- Sweden, Swedish Migration Agency, Country of Origin Information, Section for Information Analysis.

This report was written according to the EUAA COI Report Methodology (2023) and the EUAA COI Writing and Referencing Style Guide (2023).