US to remove Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham from list of foreign terrorist groups
According to the Ministry of Foreign Ministry, the US Syrian Islamist Group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) will receive from the list of foreign terrorist organizations on Tuesday.
The group pioneered a rebel attack that overthrew the Assad regime, which ruled Syria for 54 years in December. Leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa is now a temporary president of the country.
HTS, also known as the Al-Nusra Front, was Al-Sharaa in 2016 until Al-Qaeda was the affiliated organization in Syria until it broke its ties in 2016.
In recent months, Western countries have tried to reset relations with Syria, which faced heavy sanctions on the former regime.
In late June, President Trump officially signed an executive order. End the US sanctions against the countryThe White House says that the movement aims to support the “path of stability and peace”.
He added that the new Syrian government would follow actions such as “taking concrete steps to normalize ties with Israel” and “addressing foreign terrorists” and “prohibiting Palestinian terrorist groups”.
Syrian Foreign Minister ASAAD al-Shibani said that the movement would raise the “obstacle” economic improvement and open the country to the international society.
On Friday, Syria said it was willing to cooperate with the US to re -express a discrimination agreement with Israel of 1974.
British Foreign Minister David Lammy on the weekend He visited Syria – The first Minister of Government to do this in 14 years.
He met with Al-Sharaa and announced an additional support package of 94.5 million pounds, aiming to improve longer-term healing and supporting countries that help Syrian refugees.
Britain has previously removed sanctions on Syria’s defense and interior ministries.
When the Assad regime was dismissed after 13 years of destructive civil war, ninety percent of the Syrian population was left on the poverty line.
Al -sharaa promised a new Syria, but there are concerns about how the new government works within the country – suspects the radical past.
To date, only one female government minister has been appointed – and Al -haraa has made almost every appointment.
In recent months, there have been many violent attacks against minority groups.
In March, hundreds of civilians were killed from the minority Alawite sect during the clashes between the new security forces and the Assad-Loyalists. It was in April Deadly Conflicts Islamist armed groups, security forces and DRUze religious minority warriors. And at least 25 people died in a suicide attack on a church in Damascus in June.
