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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the move, which will take effect on Tuesday, 'recognizes the positive actions taken by ...
The Trump administration will no longer consider Syria’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group led by Syria’s interim ...
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President Trump eases most sanctions against Syria in a move to reclaim regional leverage, counter Iranian influence, and ...
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon removing many U.S. sanctions levied against Syria.
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.
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 ...
Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon terminating the United States' sanctions program on Syria, the White House announced.
President Donald Trump on Monday lifted U.S. sanctions on Syria, signing an executive order to carry out a promise he made in May. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters ahead ...
Trump announced during a speech in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 13 that he was lifting sanctions on Syria and blasted “interventionists” and “neocons” as wrecking “far more nations than ...