Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa paid for a coffee in Damascus using a Visa card on Wednesday, a common sight in most countries but unprecedented in the modern history of his country as it represented the first such transaction since Syria was removed from the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST) list.
The State Department first announced in July that President Donald Trump had approved beginning the process of removing Syria from the SST, a designation reserved for the world’s most hostile and prolific terrorist powers. Syria was placed on the list in 1979, during the reign of dictator Hafez Assad, in recognition of the country’s ties to…
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