U.S. Removes Syrian Sanctions
United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending sanctions on Syria. According to a White House fact sheet, the sanctions relief separates sanctions on the Syrian state from sanctions on former Syrian President Bashar Assad and people and programs linked more directly to him.
- The program directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio to review the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (hts), which is the al Qaeda affiliate that took over the Syrian government after the Assad regime fell in December.
- It also directs Rubio to review Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
- It allows export restrictions on certain goods and types of assistance to be relaxed.
The White House stated that the U.S. government would continue to monitor the new Syrian regime’s progress in these “key priorities”:
- “Take concrete steps” in normalizing relations with Israel
- “Address” the issue of foreign terrorists fighting in Syria
- Deporting and banning Palestinian terrorist factions
- Helping the U.S. fight the Islamic State
Trustworthy? The new hts regime is not without its own skeletons in the closet. On June 30, Reuters published a report implicating Syrian government forces in ethnic cleansing against the Alawite minority in March.
President Ahmed al-Sharaa may claim to be moderate and secularize his rule, but the evidence suggests his new Syria is neither moderate nor secular.
Psalm 83 prophesies that Syria, under the name of its ancient inhabitants the “Hagarenes,” would be part of an alliance that would attack America. President Trump is drawing closer to Syria’s new regime at America’s peril.
Learn more: Read Chapter 4 of Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s free booklet The King of the South.
