{"id":46823,"date":"2025-07-07T20:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46823\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:11:18","slug":"us-revokes-terrorism-designation-of-new-syrian-leaders-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46823\/","title":{"rendered":"US revokes terrorism designation of new Syrian leader\u2019s group"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration is revoking the terrorism designation of a group led by Syria\u2019s new president as part of a broader U.S. engagement with the transitional government since the ouster of former leader Bashar Assad<\/a> late last year.<\/p>\n

In a statement released on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the move, which will take effect on Tuesday, \u201crecognizes the positive actions taken by the new Syrian government\u201d under President Ahmad al-Sharaa.<\/p>\n

Earlier Monday, the Federal Register published an advance notice, which said Rubio made the decision on June 23 in consultation with the attorney general and treasury secretary. <\/p>\n

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<\/a> that had been imposed during Assad\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n

The step looks to further end Syria\u2019s isolation since a lightning rebel offensive ousted the Assad family from decades of rule and gives the new government a boost as it tries to rebuild a country shattered by 13 years of civil war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The brief notice offered no details about the revocation of the foreign terrorist organization designation for the al-Nusrah Front, also known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.<\/p>\n

Al-Nusrah was originally designated a foreign terrorist organization for its previous affiliation with al-Qaida. In 2017, it split and changed its name to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which the first Trump administration added to the initial designation.<\/p>\n

Syria has been improving relations with the United States and other Western countries following the fall of Assad<\/a> in December in an offensive led by al-Sharaa<\/a> \u2019s group. <\/p>\n

On June 30, seven days after Rubio signed the revocation, President Donald Trump<\/a> signed an executive order ending many U.S. economic sanctions on Syria<\/a>, following through on a promise he made to al-Sharaa when the two met in Saudi Arabia in May.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis FTO revocation is an important step in fulfilling President Trump\u2019s vision of a stable, unified, and peaceful Syria,\u201d Rubio said in his statement.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s executive order did not rescind sanctions imposed on Assad, his top aides, family members and officials who had been determined to have committed human rights abuses or been involved in drug trafficking or part of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons program.<\/p>\n

It also leaves intact a major set of sanctions passed by Congress targeting anyone doing business with or offering support to Syria\u2019s military, intelligence or other suspect institutions. <\/p>\n

While the Trump administration has passed temporary waivers on those sanctions, known as the Caesar Act, they can only be permanently repealed by law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration is revoking the terrorism designation of a group led by Syria\u2019s new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[36305,13224,69,57,410,8132,50,80,16816,23312,36306,5343,67,370,132,68,93,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-46823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-ahmad-al-sharaa","10":"tag-bashar-assad","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-marco-rubio","14":"tag-military-and-defense","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sanctions-and-embargoes","18":"tag-syria","19":"tag-syria-government","20":"tag-terrorism","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-government","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-washington-news","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114813775611120067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}