BRITAIN’S “deeply worrying” decision to suspend asylum applications for Syrian nationals has plunged thousands into renewed uncertainty, according to Amnesty International.

Following the ousting of the former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, the international NGO’s refugee and migrant rights director Steve Valdez-Symonds said: “Historic as it is, the fall of Assad’s brutal regime provides no guarantee of safety whatsoever in what remains a complicated and volatile situation in Syria.