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

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

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

US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Syria’s transitional leader, Ahmed al-Shara, in Riyadh last week was accompanied by ...

End your Thursday with SOFREP’s Evening Brief, packed with the latest news on defense and global affairs for May 29, 2025. At ...

Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus, amid broader efforts by the Trump ...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on May 23, 2025, announced a significant relaxation of the ...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed the recent decisions by the European Union and the United States to lift a significant portion of sanctions imposed on Syria. The moves, ...

The sanctions were designed to put pressure on the Assad regime, but they also severely affected the general population by ...