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US Rep. Joe Wilson announced Thursday that he and several of his colleagues introduced a bipartisan bill to lift Assad-era ...
The United States granted immediate sanctions relief to Syria after President Donald Trump called for a complete end to sanctions on the country. The sanctions relief was announced by the U.S.
The United States has started lifting some of the longest-standing sanctions on Syria, after President Donald Trump met with the country’s new leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia last week. The ...
Syria has welcomed the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions, calling it a 'positive step' to ease humanitarian and economic suffering in the war-torn country.
Syria's long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad was overthrown after years of brutal civil war. More than five decades of ...
By Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune When President Donald Trump met Syria’s new president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, for the first time last month, he came away impressed with the man’s vision, stamina and ...
Clashes erupted at the time after a group of Assad loyalists attacked security forces near ... The lifting of the broader sanctions on Syria comes days after the United States granted Syria sweeping ...
Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa has in six months established himself internationally and had crippling sanctions ...
Let’s take a closer look. The US was just one of many countries that had placed sanctions on Syria during the former al-Assad regime, which governed the country from 1971 to 2024. The US ...
The congressional sanctions, known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act ... Those penalties had been imposed on the Assad family for their support of Iranian-backed militias, their chemical ...