UK’s Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced consequences following the Assad regime’s fall in Syria. The United Kingdom has “postponed asylum decisions for cases from Syria, while the Home Office is reviewing and monitoring the current situation”, she said on Monday.

The situation in Syria is “developing extremely quickly following the regime’s fall”, Cooper said. Some people are now returning to Syria.

Before this, some other European countries, including Germany, France, or Austria, had already suspended pending asylum applications from Syrians.