Washington announced the move on the same day as President Donald Trump met with the Middle Eastern nation\u2019s leader at the White House<\/p>\n
The US has prolonged the suspension of a broad package of sanctions on Syria for another 180 days as President Donald Trump met with the Syrian interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, at the White House on Monday.
\nWashington announced the decision in a tri-seal advisory issued jointly by the Treasury Department and the Departments of State and Commerce. The document listed the restrictions lifted from Syria and provided guidelines for companies seeking to do business with the Middle Eastern state.
\nAccording to the advisory, Secretary of State Marco Rubio extended the May waiver suspending sanctions under the 2019 Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act for another six months. The law imposed wide-ranging restrictions on individuals, companies, and institutions linked to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and effectively barred any foreign companies from engaging in the nation\u2019s reconstruction under threat of secondary sanctions.<\/p>\n
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Under the waiver, companies are allowed to transfer most basic civilian goods of US origin, as well as software and technology, to or within Syria without a license. Permission from Washington is still needed, however, to trade in items listed on the Commerce Control List, the document said.
\nThe waiver does not cover \u201ctransactions involving the governments of Russia and Iran, or the transfer of provisions of Russian-origin or Iranian-origin goods, technology, software, funds, financing, or services,\u201d the advisory said.
\nThe measures were part of Trump\u2019s commitment to give Syria \u201ca chance at greatness,\u201d the document stated. Relations between Washington and Damascus started to thaw after the ousting of Assad\u2019s government late last year.
\nAl-Sharaa, who rose to power following the fall of Assad, had previously led the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which had evolved from a former Al-Qaeda offshoot. His visit to Washington on Monday marked his second meeting with Trump in recent months.
\nJust days before the visit, the US, as well as the UK and UN, removed Al-Sharaa from their respective terrorist lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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