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Google Translate is available in Syria with limited functionality, as of .
Google's translation service for text, speech, images, and websites across more than a hundred languages
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Partially blocked in Syria: text translation works, but offline language pack downloads fail repeatedly in the Android app. The team's wider outreach to Google over its Syria restrictions continues without a resolution.
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Community testing found offline language pack downloads failing in the Google Translate Android app from Syria, with «Can't download Albanian. Please try again» and two languages left in a persistent error state. Text translation itself continues to work.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and Syria's first live Visa and Mastercard transactions in over 15 years as evidence of changed conditions. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a campaign to several companies including Riot Games, Apple and Meta, requesting a review of Syria's service restrictions following the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and noting several companies, including Fedora, Kaggle, Firebase and AMBOSS, have already restored access. No response was recorded.
Contacted Company
A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a campaign to several companies, citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and asking which regulation, if any, still justifies restricting the service. No response was recorded.
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The same volunteer followed up with Google's compliance team about five weeks later, repeating the request and citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list on August 24, 2026. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a wider campaign to several tech companies, requesting a review of Syria's service restrictions in light of the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team noting that some Google services are already available in Syria while others are not, and asked for a company-level review to enable access across all Google products. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team a generic request to enable service access for Syrian users, citing the lifted sanctions and referencing Unblock Syria's documentation. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed both Unblock Syria and Google's compliance team directly with a generic request to enable Syria's access to Google's services, citing the lifted sanctions. No response from Google was recorded.
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A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team a generic request to enable service access for Syria, citing the lifted sanctions and pointing to Unblock Syria's documentation. No response was recorded.
Follow-up Sent
The same community volunteer followed up with Google's compliance team over a week later, repeating the request to review Syria's service restrictions in light of the lifted US and EU sanctions. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer wrote to Google's cloud compliance team, with us in Cc, urging Google to review continued restrictions on its services for Syrian users following the lifting of US and EU sanctions.
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A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team two near-identical generic requests within a few hours, asking it to raise Syria's continued service restrictions with its legal and compliance team despite the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.
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A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team asking it to review Syria's blocked-service restrictions, citing the December 2025 lifting of US and EU sanctions and requesting confirmation Syria can be onboarded. No response was recorded.
If you're experiencing issues accessing Google Translate in Syria, you can reach out to their support team directly.
Sanctions are lifted. Most companies just haven't updated their policies. A word from inside Google can change that.
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