After paid military compulsory service exemption | Regime forces issue administrative orders to end retention and recall period for reservists
The regime’s Army Command has issued two administrative orders terminating the retention and recall of reserve officers, non-commissioned officers and member reservists, as of February 1st, 2021.
Accordingly, the regime forces have terminated the retention of both retained and reservist officers who have served as reservists and completed reserve service of two years or more until January 1st, 2021, and the doctors specializing in the management of medical services whose actual reserve service is two years or more, are being dimobilized in accordance with the possibility of dispensing with their services.
The demobilization also included officers and retained personnel who had joined the reserve service and completed a period of reserve service for less than seven and a half years until January 1st, 2021, and non-commissioned officers and personnel in reserve service born in 1982 with active reserve service of two years or more.
The regime’s Army Command noted that those born in 1982 and who completed reserve service for two years will be demobilized later.
In early November, the Syrian regime issued Decree No. 31 of 2020 on the paid military exemption, in which anyone liable to compulsory military service, of those who intended to perform administrative services, is entitled to pay an amount of cash for exmption from military of $3,000 or the equivalent in Syrian pounds at the exchange rate set by the Central Bank of Syria on the date of payment, and the military in compulsory service will benefit from the provisions of the clause.
The young men residing outside the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic in Arab or foreign countries are entitled to pay for military exemption as follows:
- $7,000 for those who have been residing outside the country for not less than four years before or after entering the age of compulsory service.
- $8,000 for those who have been residing outside the country for at least three years and have not completed four years before or after entering the age of compulsory service.
- $9,000 for those who have been residing outside the country for at least two years and have not completed three years before or after entering the age of compulsory service.
- $10,000 for those who have been residing outside the country for at least one year and have not completed two years before or after entering the age of compulsory service.
- $3,000 for those born in an Arab or foreign country and have resided there or in other country permanently and continuously until they enter the age of compulsory service.
- $6,500 for those born in an Arab or foreign country and have resided for at least 10 years before entering the age of compulsory service, of which $500 is substracted for each year of residence, which is more than that and up to 17 years inclusive.