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US Treasury says it removed 518 Syrian individuals and entities from its list of sanctions after president’s decree.
Syria's new leaders are hoping renewable energy will now become more than a patchwork solution. Investment is beginning to return to the country with the lifting of U.S. sanctions, and major energy ...
N.Y., says he wants to give the Trump administration “maximum flexibility.” Most Democrats and some conservatives say they ...
What sanctions had been placed on Syria? 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 measures from the State and Treasury departments waived for six months a tough set of sanctions imposed by Congress in 2019 and expanded U.S. rules for what foreign businesses can do in Syria ...
Syria has been under US sanctions since its 1979 designation as a state sponsor of terrorism. Further sanctions were imposed in 2004 and in 2011, when civil war broke out and Assad unleashed a ...
The United States urged the United Nations Security Council on Monday to adjust its sanctions on Syria to help the country's ...
By bnm Gulf bureau Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russia considers Syria a long-standing and reliable ...
Syria's ambassador, Imad Moustapha, said this week that his government has not been informed of sanctions and refuses to discuss the matter with U.S. officials.
Several types of sanctions on Syria or its supporters are mandated under congressional acts, e.g., the Caesar Act of 2019, the Syria Accountability Act of 2003, and the Chemical and Biological ...
The United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union should urgently renew the earthquake-related humanitarian exemptions they introduced to their Syria sanctions’ regimes in February ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions Friday in a big first step toward fulfilling the president's pledge to lift a half-century of penalties on ...