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The US and EU have temporarily lifted most sanctions on Syria, paving the way for the government to start rebuilding the ...

Israel has bombed western Syria killing at least one person in the first such attack on the country in nearly a month, state ...

On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Syria General License 25, which provides broad authorization ...

An American flag was hoisted outside of the long-shuttered U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus on Thursday, in a sign of ...

In a significant shift in international policy, the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom have each taken steps ...

On 23 May 2025, the United States provided broad sanctions relief to Syria and the new Government of Syria under President ...

A sanctioned suezmax tanker is heading to Syria with a Russian oil cargo after the US relaxed import restrictions. The Trump ...

Hawks in Washington often make it sound hard to end conflicts with other countries, but the United States and Syria are ...

The extremist group, which once controlled large parts of Syria and Iraq, has opposed the new authority in Damascus led by ...

For months, many Syrians and Syria watchers had worried that the United States might never lift its sanctions. Washington first imposed sanctions on Syria in 1979, when it declared its regime to be a ...

Syria’s minister of social affairs and labor says the lifting of sanctions will allow her government to begin work on ...