Under the proposed “exploration trips” Syrians living in Germany could temporarily return to their country of origin to assess conditions—and consider a possible return.
A Damascus court has launched the first proceedings against Bashar al-Assad and senior figures from his fallen regime, supposedly starting a transitional justice process.
There is something decidedly grim beneath the normalisation of the Damascus regime: a tacit acknowledgement that violence, waged successfully enough, will eventually translate into legitimacy.
The Syrian President’s trip to Germany, initially planned for January, was postponed amid clashes between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters.
