Common analysis

This part of the country guidance includes the common analysis. The contents of this part include:

• 1. Recent developments in Syria
• 2. Displacement and return movements

• 3. Actors of persecution or serious harm
  • 3.1. Map: areas of control and influence
  • 3.2. The Transitional Government
  • 3.3. The Syrian National Army (SNA)
  • 3.4. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
  • 3.5. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
  • 3.6. Other actors

• 4. Refugee status
  • 4.1. Persons associated with the former Government of Syria

    • 4.1.1. (Former) members of Assad’s armed forces and pro-Assad armed groups

    • 4.1.2. Former Assad government officials and other civilians who (are perceived to) have collaborated with the Assad regime
  • 4.2. Persons perceived to be opposing the Transitional Government
  • 4.3. Profiles related to military service
  • 4.4. Persons fearing forced or child recruitment by Kurdish-led forces
  • 4.5. Persons perceived to be opposing the SDF/YPG
  • 4.6. Persons with perceived links to ISIL
  • 4.7. Journalists and other media professionals
  • 4.8. Individuals perceived to have transgressed religious/moral laws, norms or codes
  • 4.9. Ethno-religious groups
    • 4.9.1. Sunni Arabs
    • 4.9.2. Kurds
    • 4.9.3. Druze
    • 4.9.4. Alawites
    • 4.9.5. Christians
    • 4.9.6. Palestinians
  • 4.10. Women and girls
  • 4.11. Children
  • 4.12. Persons with diverse SOGIESC
• 5. Subsidiary protection
  • 5.1. Article 15(a) QD/QR: death penalty or execution
  • 5.2. Article 15(b) QD/QR: torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
    • 5.2.1. Arbitrary arrests, illegal detention and prison conditions
    • 5.2.2. Healthcare and socio-economic conditions
    • 5.2.3. Criminal violence
  • 5.3. Article 15(c) QD/QR: indiscriminate violence in situations of armed conflict
    • 5.3.1. Armed conflict (international or internal)
    • 5.3.2. Qualification of a person as a ‘civilian’
    • 5.3.3. Indiscriminate violence
      • High level of indiscriminate violence
        • Aleppo
        • Dar'a
        • Deir Ez-Zor
        • Hama
        • Hasaka
        • Homs
        • Idlib
        • Latakia
        • Quneitra
        • Raqqa
        • Rural Damascus
        • Sweida
        • Tartous
      • No real risk
        • Damascus
    • 5.3.4. Serious and individual threat
    • 5.3.5. Qualification of the harm as ‘threat to (a civilian’s) life or person
    • 5.3.6. Nexus/’by reason of’
• 6. Actors of protection
  • 6.1. The Transitional Government
  • 6.2. Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES)
• 7. Internal protection alternative
  • 7.1. Part of the country
  • 7.2. Safety
  • 7.3. Travel and admittance
  • 7.4. Reasonableness to settle
  • 7.5. General conclusion on the applicability of IPA in the city of Damascus
• 8. Exclusion
  • 8.1. Exclusion based on the commission of international crimes
  • 8.2. Exclusion based on the commission of a serious crime
  • 8.3. Exclusion based on acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations
  • 8.4. Exclusion based on constituting a danger to the community or to the security of the Member State