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• Jurisdiction 2
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• Political situation 169
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• Refugees 196
• Registration 6
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• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 57
• SGBV 16
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• Sanctions 23
• Security forces 128
• Security situation 382
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 13
• Small arms 3
• Social group discrimination 1
• Spontaneous return 1
• State of emergency 6
• State protection 1
• Stateless persons 1
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• Sunni 14
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• Terrorism 43
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• Trafficking in persons 6
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• Visas 3
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 22
• Widowed persons 1
• Witchcraft 1
• Women's rights 11
• Women-at-risk 7
• Yazīdī 1

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• United States Department of State - Syria
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