EUAA COI Report. Security Situation

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 an update of previous EUAA COI reports documenting the security situation in Syria, particularly: Syria - Security situation (October 2023).

The security situation report examines the nature of armed conflicts taking place in the territory, the nature of the violence and presence of armed actors in different areas, and the impact on civilians, for example in terms of casualties/fatalities and conflict-linked displacement.

The drafting of this report was finalised on 17 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:

- Denmark, Danish Immigration Service;

- Germany, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Country Analysis;

- 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).