The State Department said it would lift the designation of the Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization on Monday, months later the leader of the group defeated the Assad rule and came to power as the President of Syria.
This change will be effective on Tuesday, State Secretary Marco Rubio said statementThe group has been in the list of foreign terrorist organizations for the group, which was previously known as Jabbat al-Nusara. More than a decadeDating back to your affiliation with Al Qaeda. It makes it difficult for terrorist designation group or its leaders to accept assistance from Americans, work with American banks or travel to America
Rubio said that the group’s terrorist status is dissected “The new Syrian government recognizes the positive action taken by the new Syrian government.”
Al-Shara, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or led by HTS, helped lead an amazing aggressive flowing in Damascus at the end of last year, ending the 54-year grip of the Assad family on Syria. Since then, Al-Shara has served as the interim president of Syria, and has demanded his government to be portrayed as a liberal and inclusive force-and is a possible head against the Iranian influence.
Al sharaa Said earlier this year The HTS will be dissolved, as well as all other rebel groups, who fought the Assad government during the 13 -year civil war of Syria. Rubio cited that step, and in its decision to raise the terrorist designation, the new government’s “commitment to combat terrorism in all its forms”.
President Trump made a stunning announcement in May that he would make Lift restrictions Against Syria, the new government of the country received a significant boost. Syria suffered serious American sanctions for more than a decade, a holdover from the Assad family’s cruel dictatorial rule that banned Syria’s economy and made it difficult to accept foreign funds.
Mr. Trump also met Al-Shara in Saudi Arabia in May.
“Young, attractive man, strict man, strong past,” Shri Trump said about the new Syrian leader.
But HTS’s past as a staunch Islamist rebel group has cautioned some observers. Al sharaa Participated In the 2000s in extremism against US forces in Iraq, before he was sent to Syria to help Al-Qaeda-Elide Jabbat al-Nusra in the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s government. Jabhat Al-Nusra was nominated by the US in 2014 as a foreign terrorist organization, and Al-Shara gave an American reward of $ 10 million on his head By last year,
More than a decade ago, the group broke with rebel leader Abu Bakr al-Bagdadi and refused to merge with its now-the-old organizations, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Isis. Since 2016, there is a group of al-show Removes yourself from Al QaedaAnd Al-Shara has said that he disagrees in some ways of the global terrorist organization. He told In 2021, PBS’s “frontline”, “Our participation with al Qaeda in the past was an era, and it ended.”
