The decision had not been previously announced, although it was made as the Trump administration has been moving to ease or end many U.S. sanctions that had been imposed during Assad’s rule.

The Trump administration announced on Monday it revoked the terrorist designation placed on the new Syrian leader’s group that overthrew the country’s former president, Bashar Assad, late last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio lifted the foreign terrorist organization designation from Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa’s al Nusra Front,

The Trump administration announced Monday it will rescind the terrorist designation given to the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. In a document from the State Department, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that the United States has revoked "the designation of al-Nusrah Front,