{"id":262928,"date":"2026-08-24T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/262928\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T18:24:12","slug":"us-removes-syrias-designation-as-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/262928\/","title":{"rendered":"US removes Syria&#8217;s designation as State Sponsor of Terrorism list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The State Department on \u200cMonday removed Syria \u200cfrom its list of State \u200bSponsors of Terrorism, according to a notification from the U.S. Treasury, \u200cin \u2060a move that was first announced \u2060earlier this year pending a review by \u200bCongress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The designation \u200bas \u200ba state \u200csponsor of terrorism carries restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance, defense exports and certain financial transactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Monday&#8217;s \u200cannouncement also \u200bremoved the \u200bdesignation \u200bof the Nusrah \u200cFront as a \u200bSpecially \u200bDesignated Global Terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Katharine Jackson \u200band \u200cCostas Pitas; Editing by \u200bDaphne Psaledakis and \u200bSusan Heavey)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The State Department on \u200cMonday removed Syria \u200cfrom its list of State \u200bSponsors of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[58027,72390,72391,1330,95,1633],"class_list":["post-262928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-designation","tag-katharine-jackson","tag-notification","tag-state-department","tag-syria","tag-u-s-treasury"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117151889171843724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}