But that is what happened in the middle of the night on June 23rd, the 12th day of a war between Israel and Iran. Donald ...

The entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, where 63 people are being held hostage, seen in 1980. Graffiti on the wall ...

This change of tone, however fleeting, came after the intense U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites this week, Iran's retaliatory yet restrained attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar and ...

Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and Republican Rand Paul forwarded the ...

Last month, the US and the EU announced the relaxation of sanctions on Syria. “It’s their time to shine. We’re taking them ...

President Donald Trump’s administration suspended the majority of sanctions on Syria, marking the most sweeping shift in the ...

Binance has become one of the first crypto trading platforms to launch in Syria after the United States lifted sanctions in ...

Following an announcement by President Donald Trump on May 13, 2025, that he would order the cessation of US sanctions against Syria, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets ...

In tandem, the US Department of State issued a 180-day waiver under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (Caesar Act), which otherwise authorizes sanctions on foreign persons that ...

Syria remains at high risk. Sanctions relief doesn’t guarantee a stable path ahead, but without it, the country has no real chance of one.

The general licence, known as GL25, “authorises transactions prohibited by the Syrian Sanctions Regulations, effectively lifting sanctions on Syria”, the Treasury said in a statement.

Syria considers the move by the Trump administration to ease sanctions imposed on the war-torn country as a “positive step” to ease humanitarian and economic suffering, its foreign ministry ...