Google Workspace

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Follow-up Sent

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.

Investigated

Community testing found Google Workspace blocked in Syria: signing in returns Google's "Service unavailable" page saying the service is not available in the country, on both mobile and desktop, reportedly even over Starlink. Syria is absent from Workspace's supported country list.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.

Contacted Company

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.