Internal security & General Security Service
The transitional state's interior security structures — successor space to the Assad era's police and feared intelligence branches, rebuilt around the General Security Service, and the destination of the Asayish under the integration agreement's interior file. Structural description only.
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- Asayish (internal security forces) Institutionally linked to · as of 2026-07 · moderate confidence
Internal-security integration into the Interior Ministry is one of the civilian files left open by the January 2026 agreement. Interior-ministry units deployed into the north-eastern cities from February 2026 with Kurdish policing reported as continuing until a merger is completed, so the relationship is a transition in progress rather than a settled one.
Lineage & institutional history
Predecessors: Assad-era police and security branches (dissolved; personnel partially vetted)
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- Extending state authority Supporting force · Since December 2024 · high confidence · as of 2026-07
Internal security and policing are the instrument through which the extension of authority is actually felt in most of the country.
Assessed as of2026-06
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