Dutch Foreign Ministry's annual report on Syria: The situation is fragile and unstable.

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stated that the security situation in Syria is currently "unstable" and "fragile" following the fall of the ousted President Bashar al-Assad's regime last December.

This came in the annual report on the situation in Syria, prepared by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the Dutch judiciary decided it must be published following a case brought by a Syrian whose asylum request was rejected in Dutch courts.

Dutch political parties, along with tens of thousands of Syrian refugees and asylum seekers, are eagerly awaiting the assessment of the Dutch Foreign Ministry, as their fate in the country largely depends on it.

The "annual assessment" concerns the safety of asylum seekers in their home countries, and based on this report, it is decided whether they are allowed to stay (temporarily) in the Netherlands or must return.