# AliExpress (علي إكسبريس)

> AliExpress is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of 2026-08-27.

- Status: limited
- Outreach: Contacted
- Company: [Alibaba](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/alibaba.md)
- Categories: Online Marketplaces, Logistics & Shipping
- Official site: https://www.aliexpress.com
- Community votes: 112
- Last updated: 2026-08-27
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/aliexpress

## About

Global online retail marketplace by Alibaba offering affordable products shipped worldwide

## Activity summary

Partially blocked in Syria. The website is reachable, but community reports from February 2026 confirmed that AliExpress does not ship products to Syria. The team contacted the company in March 2026 and received only an automated reply directing the inquiry elsewhere, with no substantive engagement on access.

## Official timeline

- 2026-03-31 — Contacted Company. Official outreach to dataprotection.ae@aliexpress.com. Website accessible but shipping to Syria blocked. Alibaba.com and Qwen (same parent company) already fully accessible, proving corporate compliance groundwork established. Apple Store, iHerb accessible e-commerce peers.
- 2026-03-30 — Company Responded. AliExpress's data protection team sent an automated reply from dataprotection.ae@aliexpress.com stating that this email address only handles queries related to personal data protection. The response directed to the AliExpress Help Center for order-related issues and provided alternative contacts for IPR, product compliance, and judicial assistance. The outreach did not reach the appropriate team for compliance or market access decisions. The response appears to be an automated acknowledgment rather than a substantive engagement.

## Community reports

- 2026-02-04 — Investigated. Although it's open, AliExpress cannot ship products to Syria
- 2026-02-04 — Investigated. Community member reported that while AliExpress website is accessible from Syria, the platform does not ship products to the country. Status updated from accessible to limited to reflect this service-level restriction.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/aliexpress?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/aliexpress/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/aliexpress
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/aliexpress.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/aliexpress.md