Published on 6 December 2024, this ACCORD query response examines payment of the military-service exemption fee after desertion from the Syrian army, alongside a separate question about conscript training in Libya. In an email dated 18 November, Muhsen AlMustafa explained that the exemption-fee provisions did not cover deserters under the legal and administrative framework then in force. His contribution distinguished desertion from draft evasion and described the military-law penalties that deserters could face.