16 Entities on Bashar al-Assad's Sanctions List: Japan Announces Partial Lifting of Assets Freeze

On Tuesday, the Japanese government announced a partial lifting of the “asset freeze and other measures” imposed on the ousted Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and related individuals and entities, listing 16 entities. The Japanese government, according to a post on the official page of its embassy in Damascus on the X platform (formerly Twitter), that the parties removed from the list are: For its part, the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed this The announcement of a statement in which it said that "the decision comes as a continuation of the partial lifting of measures imposed by Japan on Syria since 2011, which began in May 2025, and constitutes a positive step that reflects Japan's appreciation of the developments in Syria and the efforts of its government in the path of recovery and state-building, and its keenness to develop bilateral relations, and stressed that the decision contributes to enabling national institutions to play their role, and consolidate security and stability, and support recovery and reconstruction efforts. "