Unprecedented migration wave | Young men from Rif Dimashq flee abroad

As the Syrian tragedy continue and deepen, Syrians pay a painful price for the consequences of the war, and the ruling regime clings to power in Syria, led by Bashar Al-Assad, youth migration is increasing almost daily and at unprecedented level from regime-held areas.

Some young men have chosen to emigrate to Arab countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and the Sudan, others have chosen to flee to Europe via Turkey or Libya.

It is worth noting that in southern Syria, Al-Suwaydaa and Daraa had witnessed mass youth migration.
Recently, the emigration of young men from the suburbs of the capital, Damascus,has intensified and escalated.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, thousands of young men have left Rif Dimashq since the beginning of 2022 and fled to Arab and African countries, including those who went out to Libya in order to reach Europe, similar to the migration of young men from Daraa and Al-Suwaydaa.

The worsening living, security, and economic conditions, lack of security and safety and employment opportunities, the fear of being arrested and being forced to battle in Syrian deserts against ISIS fighters or to force them to fight on the frontlines of north-western Syria are the most important causes that lead families to send their sons to countries abroad.

On February 21, SOHR activists reported that as youths in regime-held areas in general and southern Syria, in particular, plague the worsening living conditions, lack of security and safety and employment opportunities, southern Syria is witnessing an unprecedented migration of youth from Daraa and Al-Suwaydaa to Libya via Lebanon.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, dozens of young men, who are in desperate straits in the light of the country’s lack of minimum decent living standard, daily flock from Daraa and Al-Suwaydaa to Lebanon with the aim of travelling to Libya and arriving in Italy.

SOHR sources have confirmed that nearly 200 Syrian migrants, the majority of whom are from Daraa, had arrived in Italy by sea via Libya in recent days.

It is worth noting that the migration of young men from areas controlled by the regime has recently escalated, in the light of disastrous living conditions and for fear of arrest and prosecution for serving in the regime’s army after the end of army service postponements.