The US sanctions about Syria after Trump's surprise announcement | Donald Trump News

The administration of US President Donald Trump took its first concrete measures to deliver sanctions for Syria after a surprise guideline was punished at the beginning of this month.

On Friday, the US Ministry of Finance announced a number of people and companies a comprehensive relief [Trump’s] America first strategy ”.

Meanwhile, the US State Department gave a waiver of a law from 2019, the Caesar Syria -Zivil Protection Act, which would “enable our foreign partners, allies and the region to further unlock the potential of Syria”.

In an explanation, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the waiver would “facilitate the provision of electricity, energy, water and hygiene and enable more effective humanitarian reaction throughout Syria”.

Approval covers new investments in Syria, the provision of financial services and transactions with Syrian oil products.

“Today's actions are the first step to meet the president's vision for a new relationship between Syria and the United States,” said Rubio on Friday.

Trump surprised the international community when he promised on May 13th to remove sanctions on Syria during the leadership of his now suitable guide, President Bashar al-Assad.

The announcements on Friday are a first step towards this goal, since Syria of abuses under the government of al-Assad and 13 years of civil war.

Sanction relief is of crucial importance for Syria to be found. The United States gave up the sanctions in Caesar Act to increase investments and cash flows that facilitate basic services and reconstruction in Syria. We support the Syrian people's efforts to build more …

– Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) May 23, 2025

“As President Trump promised, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs begins to promote new investments in Syria,” said Finance Minister Scott Bessent in a statement.

“Syria must continue to work to become a stable country in peace, and today's actions will hopefully bring the country to a path to a bright, successful and stable future.”

Trump revealed his plans for sanction reliefs during a tour of the Middle East in mid -May. He said that the lifting of US sanctions would give Syria “a chance of size”, since the restrictions had the land that was hung up to the war.

“It is your time to shine. We take them all,” he said from Riad.

Shortly thereafter, Trump hit his hand with the Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and shook his hand, which had recently been removed from the list of US “specially designated global terrorists”.

Relief calling

The sanctions were relieved after the fall of the government of Al-Assad last December in December. As head of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, Al-Sharaa led the offensive, which led to Al-Assad fled in front of the country and ended the civil war.

The war that broke out for the first time in 2011 had left Syria's economy in ruins.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, up to 656,493 people were killed during the conflict, and a report by the United Nations 2020 estimated that the country suffered an overall economic loss of around $ 442.2 billion in the first eight years of war alone.

The sanctions have further steamed the economic prospects of Syria, which made it difficult for the countries to spend the connections to the United States.

Since power in December, the Syria's preliminary government has argued that the persistent sanctions, which were largely imposed during the rule of al-Assad, would slow down the development and cause further instability.

Trump's announcement at the beginning of this month has burdened hope for many Syrians on a new path, although the extent of the relief had remained unclear.

At the beginning of this week, the European Union also announced that Syria sanctions canceled.

The sanctions on Friday in the United States applies to the “government of Syria … as before or after or after May 13, 2025,” according to the finance department.

The postponement also applies to several previously sanctioned transport, banking, tourism and fossil fuels.

Transactions related to Russia, Iran and North Korea remain under US sanctions.

However, one of the biggest hurdles is the Caesar Syria -Zivil Protection Act, a law that was passed in 2019 while Trump's first term.

It included broad sanctions that aimed at the government of Al-Assad and its allies and supporters at atrocities against civilians.

The law was named after a former Syrian military photographer and whistleblower, which smuggled a cache of pictures from the country, which showed torture and mass murder in adhesives of al-Assad's security forces.

Since the law was passed by the congress, it will probably require an act of the congress to completely increase its restrictions.

However, the president can enact temporary waiver against the law on what the Trump government did on Friday.