The new Syrian state continues to intensify efforts to cut all arms supply lines from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to shut them down completely, given their impact on the country’s stability.

With the fall of Bashar al Assad’s regime in December 2024, unsecured weapons depots emerged as a major threat to civilian life, even as the new authorities seek to establish security and political stability in the country.

Debate is mounting in Syria over whether to grant citizenship to foreign fighters who joined the revolutionaries in toppling Bashar al-Assad’s regime, which fell on December 8, 2024.

Despite political shifts and UN incentives, Syrian refugees’ return from Lebanon remains slow due to widespread devastation, lack of services, and funding shortfalls.

In Syria, children’s identities were erased in the basements of the Assad regime's prison, then further obscured by placing them in care institutions and tampering with their official documents.