EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad

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EU updates asylum guidance for Syrian refugees a year after fall of Bashar al-Assad  The number of Syrians requesting asylum dropped significantly from 16,000 in October 2024, before the fall of al-Assad in December, to 3,500 in September 2025.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/12/03/eu-updates-asylum-guidance-for-syrian-refugees-a-year-after-fall-of-bashar-al-assad  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The European Union has issued updated guidance for asylum applications by Syrian nationals

00:08that reflects new conditions in Syria a year after the fall of former long-time leader Bashar al-Assad.

00:15The changes may influence the result of asylum requests of some 110,000 Syrians

00:21who were still awaiting an asylum decision at the end of September.

00:24When Syria's civil war started in 2011, 23 million people were displaced

00:31and 5 million Syrians fled to neighboring countries and Europe.

00:36The number of Syrians requesting asylum dropped significantly from 16,000 in October 2024

00:44before the fall of al-Assad in December to 3,500 in September 2025.

00:50The European Union Agency for Asylum said opponents of al-Assad and military service evaders

00:57are no longer at risk of persecution.

01:00But the agency said other groups may be considered at risk in the post-Assad Syria,

01:05including people affiliated with the former government and members of the Alawites,

01:10Christians and Druze ethnic religious groups.

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