The United States will revoke its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a foreign terrorist organisation (FTO) as Washington softens its approach to post-war Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government last year.

Ahmed al-Sharaa led HTS, considered a jihadist group for years. Now, he has replaced Assad as Syria’s new president. And he is making the US and Europe shift their course.

The State Department is poised to officially drop its terrorist designation for Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist group that toppled the Assad regime and whose leader is now the