Syria’s interior minister revealed yesterday (Thursday May 22) that 8.2 million Syrians– over a third of the country’s population - were wanted for arrest or banned from travel by the deposed Assad regime, explaining that the Ministry of Interior is currently working to resolve the problem. The new government has already removed over 5.2 million names from the list of individuals wanted by the ousted regime for reasons related to military service, he revealed, with approximately 3 million cases still being addressed, including more than 1,130,000 state employees.