Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 - Syria

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 - Syria, United States Department of State, 30 April 2001, https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/usdos/2001/en/26143 [accessed 27 March 2025]
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Syria continued to provide safehaven and support to several terrorist groups, some of which maintained training camps or other facilities on Syrian territory. Ahmad Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Abu Musa's Fatah-the-Intifada, and George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) maintained their headquarters in Damascus. The Syrian Government allowed HAMAS to open a new main office in Damascus in March, although the arrangement may be temporary while HAMAS continues to seek permission to reestablish its headquarters in Jordan. In addition, Syria granted a variety of terrorist groups – including HAMAS, the PFLP-GC, and the PIJ – basing privileges or refuge in areas of Lebanon's Bekaa Valley under Syrian control. Damascus generally upheld its agreement with Ankara not to support the Kurdish PKK, however.

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