Headquarters of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry
CAIRO- 7 December 2024: Egypt categorically denied the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report claiming that Egyptian officials urged the Syrian president to leave the country and form a government in exile.
Egypt stressed that this information is completely baseless, according to a statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Saturday.
The WSJ reported that Egyptian and Jordanian officials urged the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad to leave Syria amid the ongoing fierce fighting between the Syrian regime military forces and the opposition armed groups. The Jordanian authorities also denied these claims.
The opposition armed forces, led by the Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), launched sudden attacks against the Syrian regime forces and their allies in the cities of Idlib and Aleppo on November 27, 2024, and managed to completely control them, except in some small villages run by the Kurds. The opposition forces also managed to take other cities like Hama, Homos and the southern city of Daraa. It is reported that the opposition forces are heading to the Capital, Damascus.
Egypt also urged its citizens currently in Syria to exercise utmost caution.
The Egyptians have been advised to avoid areas of confrontations, follow the instructions of Syrian authorities, refrain from traveling to Syria at this time, and stay in regular contact with the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus.
The Ministry has established a crisis cell to monitor the situation of Egyptian citizens in Syria around the clock.
It called on all Egyptians residing or present in Syria to promptly register their details with the Egyptian Embassy in Damascus so that their safety and well-being can be closely monitored, and necessary measures can be taken. For assistance, the Embassy has provided the following contact numbers:
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