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DAILYCALLER (Francis Kapper) - Trump Moves To Legitimize Ex-Jihadist Leader’s Regime Wed Jul 8 21:31:19 2026

‘I think I will, yeah.’

President Donald Trump said that he would work to remove Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism on Wednesday during his meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the NATO summit in Turkey. The State Department followed up on Trump’s comments at the NATO summit by posting a Wednesday press release formalizing Trump’s decision. Al-Sharaa’s movement, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), split from al-Qaeda in 2017, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies ; however, the State Department  revoked the group’s Foreign Terrorist Organization designation in 2025. A senior Trump administration official confirmed the development with the Daily Caller News Foundation. (RELATED: Dollar Signs Flash…Open

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SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - His Majesty’s head-chopper: Syria’s MI6-backed president bows to King Charles Fri Apr 3 15:36:04 2026

By Kit Klarenberg

Ahmed al-Sharaa’s Downing Street visit offered him a reunion with the British intel operatives who groomed the former Al Qaeda warlord to become president of Syria. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. When Syria’s “interim” leader Ahmed al-Sharaa touched down in London on March 31, he was given a much warmer welcome than many once thought possible. As the longtime leader of Syria’s Al-Qaeda branch, the US had been offering a $10 million bounty for information on his location just 15 months prior. Yet here was Al-Sharaa, proudly posing for photo ops with King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. British intelligence had been working towards…Open

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