2021_EASO_COI_Report_Syria_Security_situation

In order to support the assessment of the application of Article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive on a serious and individual threat to a civilian’s life or person by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict, the security situation report examines the nature of armed conflicts taking place in the territory, the nature of the violence and prese. [...] General description of the security situation in Syria 1.1 Overview of conflicts Several armed conflicts are taking place in Syria, according to the Rule of Law in Armed Conflict Project (RULAC):11 • the United States (US)-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is in an international armed conflict with Syria, due to its military intervention in Syria without the con. [...] 45; Waters, G., The Lion and The Eagle: The Syrian Arab Army’s Destruction and Rebirth, Middle East Institute, 18 July 2019, url 89 Waters, G., The Lion and The Eagle: The Syrian Arab Army’s Destruction and Rebirth, Middle East Institute, 18 July 2019, url 90 Waters, G., The Lion and The Eagle: The Syrian Arab Army’s Destruction and Rebirth, Middle East Institute, 18 July 2019, url; Omran Centre f. [...] The desirable end strength of these forces was described to be 110 000 fighters, of which 30 000 in the SDF, 45 000 in the PRISF and 35 000 in the InSF.136 According to a YPG source cited in Reuters article published in October 2019, the SDF had approximately 40 000 fighters on the eve of the Turkish incursion.137 In December 2020, Wladimir van Wilgenburg estimated that the SDF pays the salaries o. [...] In the second half of 2020, an increase of ISIL attacks and seizures of villages were reported in east Hama governorate, ‘from south of Uqayribat to north of Ithriya’ and around the village of Rahjan.228 A March 2021 analysis by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote that ISIL controls several small swaths of territory in the mountainous areas of the Syrian Central Desert (Badia) from wher.