On January 6, 2024, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License 24, which authorizes transactions with governing institutions...

On June 30, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14312 ("E.O. 14312" or the "E.O.") titled "Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions," which terminates, effective July 1, 2025...

On June 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued the Syria-Related Sanctions Regulations (SRSR). Not to be confused with the pre-existing Syrian

On February 18, 2026, the Government of Canada announced significant amendments to the Special Economic Measures (Syria) Regulations (Syria Regulations), marking a substantial shift in Canada's sanctions framework...

Effective today, Canada has taken additional steps to impose economic sanctions against Syria by imposing a ban on financial services and targeting transactions involving the Central Bank of Syria as well as additional listed individuals.

As we mentioned in our previous update published on 2nd September (link) additional entities were added to the European Union's asset freeze list by Council Regulation (EU) 843/2011 on 24 August 2011, and at a subsequent meeting of EU foreign ministers in Poland on the 1 September 2011 further sanctions were agreed targeting Syrian's oil exports.

On June 30, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) implemented the President's Executive Order ​"Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions," (Syria EO) which removes...

On May 23, 2025, the United States formally eased its economic sanctions on Syria...

Syria has entered a new post-Assad era with President Trump's dramatic mid-May announcement that he would order the cessation of US sanctions. The move has opened the door for the US...

Over nine months since the ouster of autocratic President Bashar al-Assad, Syria is still in the early days of a shaky stabilization process.

In December 2024, Bashar al-Assad's regime was ousted from Syria. On May 13, 2025, President Trump announced that he was "ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria to give them a fresh start."

Department Of Treasury Issues A General License Lifting Some Sanctions On Syria...

On December 28, 2023, a federal court sentenced New Hampshire charity NuDay (a/k/a NuDay Syria) to five years of probation – the maximum sentence for an organizational defendant – for three counts...

On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Departments of State ("State") and the Treasury ("Treasury") took actions that resulted in immediate sanctions relief for Syria.

As 2025 comes to an end, one theme defines the global compliance landscape: volatility. Over the past twelve months, sanctions and export control regimes have shifted quickly as the second Trump...

Building on prior relief of sanctions and other restrictive trade measures earlier this year (as described in K2 Integrity alerts dated 15 May and 09 June 2025), on 30 June 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump...

On May 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License (GL) 25 to provide immediate sanctions relief for Syria...

During K2 Integrity's 14 March webinar, panelists Chip Poncy and Mohammed Alaa Ghanem discussed the assistance required in Syria and Türkiye in the wake of the 6 February earthquakes.