Syria

Although President Bashar al-Assad’s government fell in December 2024, ending that regime’s years of religious freedom and broader human rights violations, Syria’s diverse religious communities face other threats. Both the interim authorities in Damascus—led by U.S.-designated terrorists and longstanding FoRB violator Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)—and Turkish-backed Islamist militias in the north and east pose threats to FoRB and to the future stability of the country.