Asylum procedures and decisions for asylum-seekers from Syria will be suspended with immediate effect until the situation can be reassessed, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) tweeted on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The SEM said it was currently unable to make a well-founded assessment as to whether there are grounds for asylum and whether it is reasonable to enforce a removal order. In Syria, rebels captured the capital Damascus on Sunday after more than 13 years of civil war. President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia. It is unclear how the balance of power in the country will now develop. + Fall of Assad: Switzerland calls for reconciliation in Syria Translated from German by DeepL/ts How we work This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it ...
