The U.S. Government has revoked the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, a Syria-based jihadist paramilitary organization that fought the Syrian civil war.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the FTO designation of HTS, also known as al-Nusrah Front, was revoked under the Immigration and Nationality Act. This revocation became effective Tuesday.
HTS, along with other Syrian opposition groups, launched an offensive that led to the fall of the Assad regime in December last year.
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