Save the Kurds Act

This bill would require the Secretary of State to designate Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization. It would let the President end Syria's state sponsor of terrorism designation only after sending Congress a report and waiting through a review period during which Congress could pass a resolution blocking the change. It would require sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans, on the President of Syria, government ministers, Syrian banks, and people who support or do business with the Syrian government, and would bring back sanctions from earlier executive orders. It would bar U.S. persons from new investment in Syria and from buying Syrian government debt, and would bar Syrian government-linked companies from U.S. stock exchanges. The President could suspend the law if Syria stops attacking the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, humanitarian goods are exempt, and the law would end after 5 years.

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