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The Trump administration announced Monday it will rescind the terrorist designation held by the United States against Hayat ...
The Trump administration will no longer consider Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group led by Syria’s interim ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the move, which will take effect on Tuesday, 'recognizes the positive actions taken by ...
President Trump eases most sanctions against Syria in a move to reclaim regional leverage, counter Iranian influence, and ...
Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing ...
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will no longer be designated as a terrorist group, months after the group swept to power in Syria.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon removing many U.S. sanctions levied against Syria.
The State Department is poised to officially drop its designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — the Islamist group that ...
Starting Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s executive order dismantles many of those sanctions, including ones against state-linked entities such as Syria’s central bank and other major financial institutions.
Trump and Netanyahu will “discuss positive developments taking place in the Middle East region during their dinner tonight at the White House,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier. The post ...
Critics of the Trump administration’s approach worry that lifting all sanctions at once will give the U.S. little leverage with Syria’s new government to incentivize good behavior.
Ambassador Tom Barrack, Trump's envoy to Syria, called the new order a "tedious, detailed, excruciating process" of unraveling the sanctions that had been in place for decades on the regime of ...