What to know

• The United States officially removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday. The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated its sanctions regul...S1
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he authorised the rescission after the mandatory 45-day Congressional notification period. The US also removed "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham's" (HTS) designation as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" (SDGT).S2