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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.