Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusrah Front, carries no organisation-level terrorism designation in the United States, the United Nations or the United Kingdom as at 25 August 2026. The four instruments came off in sequence: the US Foreign Terrorist Organization designation revoked 8 July 2025; the UK proscription removed 21 October 2025; the UN 1267 listing QDe.137 removed, reported as 27 February 2026; and the US Specially Designated Global Terrorist designation delisted 24 August 2026
Claim ID
HTS-001
Exact or summary claim
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusrah Front, carries no organisation-level terrorism designation in the United States, the United Nations or the United Kingdom as at 25 August 2026. The four instruments came off in sequence: the US Foreign Terrorist Organization designation revoked 8 July 2025; the UK proscription removed 21 October 2025; the UN 1267 listing QDe.137 removed, reported as 27 February 2026; and the US Specially Designated Global Terrorist designation delisted 24 August 2026
Destination
Chapters 6 and 10
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-398, the Secretary of State's press statement of 24 August 2026 for the SDGT delisting; SRC-399, the OFAC SDN list published 24 August 2026 and the UN Consolidated List generated 24 August 2026, both showing the organisation absent under every name form with controls hitting; and Chapter 6's existing material for the FTO revocation of 8 July 2025 and the UK deproscription of 21 October 2025
Source type
Statement of the designating authority, and the designating authorities' own machine-readable lists
Published
2026-08-24
Accessed
2026-08-25
Measure and scope
Presence of the ORGANISATION on the designating authorities' published lists, checked at the list files on 25 August 2026. THIS IS A CLAIM ABOUT THE ORGANISATION AND NOT ABOUT ANY PERSON. Whether individuals formerly associated with it remain designated is a separate question and this row does not answer it.
Known conflict
THE DATE OF THE UNITED NATIONS DELISTING IS SECONDARY AND THE OTHER THREE ARE NOT. The Security Council press release could not be retrieved: press.un.org returned a 3,038-byte JavaScript client challenge under HTTP 200 on four attempts and the Committee's entity page returns 403. What is primary is that QDe.137 is absent from the list generated 24 August 2026 and that the list itself says 'formerly listed as Al-Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant'. THE FACT IS PRIMARY; THE DATE IS REPORTED. Separately, the SDGT delisting was announced the day before the SDN list was published, so the absence from the SDN list confirms the statement rather than merely repeating it.
Specialist
Sanctions counsel
Downstream
Chapters 6 and 10
Action
Print the four instruments as a sequence with each date attributed, and ATTRIBUTE THE UNITED NATIONS DATE as reported rather than stating it flat. The permitted operational sentence is that the organisation appears on neither the OFAC SDN list published 24 August 2026 nor the United Nations Consolidated List generated the same day, with the controls named. DO NOT WRITE THAT SANCTIONS RISK HAS ENDED: this row is about the organisation's own listing and says nothing about individuals, about correspondent banks' own risk appetite, or about the grey listing, which is a separate measure and is unaffected. DO NOT WRITE THAT SCREENING WILL NO LONGER FLAG A SYRIAN PAYMENT, because Chapter 6's argument is that a screen returns a match on several signals and this removes one of them.