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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

US-Syrian relations

Rabbi Yusuf Hamra, left, and his son Henry take pictures as they visit the Al-Raqi synagogue in the old city of Damascus Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)
March 9, 2025, 1:27 pm
US Jews from Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus
Only seven Jews believed to remain in Syrian capital, once one of the world’s largest Jewish communities; New York family seeks to rebuild destroyed synagogues
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Stacks of Syrian pound banknotes are piled on top of each other at a currency trader's stall at a market in the city of Manbij, currently controlled by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army faction, in Syria's northern Aleppo province on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 1:47 pm
US to ease curbs on supplies to Syria but keep sanctions in place
Outgoing Biden administration intends move as goodwill gesture to country’s new rulers, while maintaining leverage to ensure Islamists keep promise to form inclusive government
By Reuters
Cars belonging to the US delegation drive in a street in Damascus, Syria, on December 20, 2024. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP)
December 20, 2024, 7:43 pm
US diplomats meet HTS chiefs in Syria, the first in-person contact with new rulers
State Department says officials discussed ‘transition principles’ and battling ISIS with members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which is pushing for terror designation to be lifted
By Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers a statement to the press after meeting with the foreign ministers of the Arab Contact Group on Syria in Jordan's southern Red Sea coastal city of Aqaba, December 14, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)
December 15, 2024, 5:11 am
Blinken: US officials have directly communicated with Syria’s blacklisted new rulers
In Jordan to meet regional counterparts, US top diplomat doesn’t go into detail about contact with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel group that ousted Assad
By Matthew Lee
US President-elect Donald Trump arrives for a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at The Elysees Presidential Palace in Paris on December 7, 2024. (Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP)
December 7, 2024, 7:19 pm
Trump says US should stay out of Syria civil war: ‘Let it play out’
‘THIS IS NOT OUR FIGHT,’ president-elect writes, as he visits Paris for reopening of Notre Dame, meetings with Macron and Zelensky
By AFP
Marc and Debra Tice, the parents of Austin Tice, who is missing in Syria, speak during a press conference at the Press Club, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
August 17, 2022, 2:31 pm
Syria denies it detained US journalist, on 10th anniversary of his disappearance
Biden administration says it knows ‘with certainty’ Syria holding US journalist Austin Tice; Syria labels claims ‘misleading and illogical’
By Albert Aji and Bassam Mroue
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accompanied by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, left, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyanin, right, speaks at a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, October 13, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP))
October 14, 2021, 8:56 am
US rules out normalization with Syria while Assad in power
Blinken, meeting with Israeli, UAE counterparts, says Washington won’t lift sanctions without ‘vital’ political progress, despite warming ties between Arab states and Damascus
By Agencies
James Jeffrey, special representative for Syria Engagement and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington on November 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
December 5, 2020, 10:03 pm
Ex-Syria envoy felt Trump was unqualified. Now he’s sad to see administration go
James Jeffrey signed a 2016 letter warning Trump would put national security at risk, but after serving under him, longtime diplomat says president’s policies made the region safer
By Jacob Magid
US President Donald Trump (L) and then-defense secretary James Mattis at a Cabinet meeting in the White House on March 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)
September 15, 2020, 10:28 pm
Trump says he wanted to kill Assad, but Pentagon chief blocked him
Confirming reports he’s previously denied, US president says he had Syrian leader ready to be taken out, but Jim Mattis ‘didn’t want to do it’
By AFP
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addresses the parliament, in Damascus, Syria, August 12, 2020. (SANA via AP)
August 13, 2020, 9:49 am
Syrian president slams US sanctions in speech to parliament
Bashar Assad calls restrictions imposed under Caesar Act an ‘escalation’ intended to ‘strangle’ Syria’s citizens; during address leader has to pause, citing low blood sugar
By AFP
Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin has traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally. The rare visit Tuesday comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States following the U.S. drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general who led forces supporting Assad in Syria's civil war. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
July 29, 2020, 7:49 pm
US imposes sanctions on teenage son of Syrian leader Assad
18-year-old Hafez Assad, named after his grandfather, will not be allowed to travel or maintain assets in the United States
By AFP
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem speaks during a press conference, Damascus, Syria, March 12, 2016. (AFP/Louai Behsara)
June 23, 2020, 3:44 pm
Syria refuses to ‘bow’ to US sanctions and accept ‘normalization with Israel’
FM Muallem decries Caesar Act as an attempt to undermine support for dictator Assad and force him to ‘abandon’ his alliances
By AFP
Syria's first lady Asma Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, during an interview aired on state TV in Damascus, Syria. The photo was released on the official Facebook page of the Syrian Presidency, August 4, 2019. (Syrian Presidency via Facebook)
June 17, 2020, 4:46 pm
Vowing new Syria campaign, US sanctions dozens including Assad’s UK-born wife
Secretary of state says ‘sustained campaign of economic and political pressure’ is aimed at stopping regime’s ‘brutal war’ on Syrian people
By Shaun Tandon
Employees stack Syrian currency in the Central Bank, in Damascus, Syria, January 13, 2010. (Hussein Malla/AP)
June 17, 2020, 3:30 pm
Syria devalues currency as new US sanctions hit
Central bank raises official exchange rate from 704 to 1,256 Syrian pounds to the dollar as Caesar Act prepares to take aim at foreigners doing business with Damascus government
By AFP
Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis listens to Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, January 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 11, 2020, 6:02 pm
Syria’s Assad fires PM amid worsening economic crisis
President taps water resources minister to replace Imad Khamis, whose ouster comes ahead of new US sanctions on any entity or nation doing business with the country
By Albert Aji
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