{"id":294237,"date":"2026-08-25T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=294237"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:27:50","slug":"al-sharaa-says-syria-sheds-the-dark-stain-of-its-past-as-he-thanks-us-for-terror-list-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/294237\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Sharaa says Syria sheds the \u2018dark stain\u2019 of its past as he thanks US for terror list removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed Washington’s decision to remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

“Today, Syria shakes off a dark stain and tears away a painful chapter of its past to embark on a path of development, reconstruction and rebuilding,” al-Sharaa said in a speech early Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Washington’s decision on Monday rescinded a decades-old designation that came with severe economic restrictions.<\/p>\n

The US Treasury Department announced corresponding sanctions relief.<\/p>\n

Al-Sharaa expressed his “many thanks to the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, and to all the friendly and supportive nations that stood by us.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syria’s Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed Washington’s decision to remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, Euronews writes. “Today, Syria shakes off a dark stain and tears away a painful chapter of its past to embark on a path of development, reconstruction and rebuilding,” al-Sharaa said in a speech early Tuesday. Washington’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":294218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294238,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294237\/revisions\/294238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}