SUPERSEDED 24 AUGUST 2026 AND THE DESIGNATION WAS RESCINDED. What this row recorded, as at 23 August 2026, was that syria remains designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the United States as at 23 August 2026, forty-six days after the President certified rescission and one day after the statutory 45-day period expired
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Claim ID
SST-001
Exact or summary claim
SUPERSEDED 24 AUGUST 2026 AND THE DESIGNATION WAS RESCINDED. What this row recorded, as at 23 August 2026, was that syria remains designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the United States as at 23 August 2026, forty-six days after the President certified rescission and one day after the statutory 45-day period expired
Destination
Chapters 6, 8 and 10
Status
SUPERSEDED
Source
United States Department of State, Bureau of Counterterrorism, State Sponsors of Terrorism list page, checked 23 August 2026 (SRC-371); House Document 119-168, the President's certification of 8 July 2026 (SRC-370); SUPERSEDED BY SRC-398, the Secretary of State's press statement of 24 August 2026 authorising the formal rescission
Source type
Official statement of the designating authority, and an official congressional document
Published
2026-07-09
Accessed
2026-08-24
Measure and scope
Presence on the State Department's published State Sponsors of Terrorism list, checked at the page on 23 August 2026. The list names four countries, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria, and gives Syria's designation date as 29 December 1979. THE CERTIFICATION WAS TRANSMITTED 8 JULY 2026 under section 1754(c)(4) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, 50 U.S.C. 4813(c)(4), and 45 days from that date is 22 August 2026, which is this book's own arithmetic on the statute's stated period
Known conflict
The announcement of 8 July 2026 was reported worldwide as removal and the designation is still on the list forty-six days later. NOT ESTABLISHED: whether the page is updated promptly, whether rescission takes effect on expiry of the period without publication, and whether an instrument has been signed and not yet published. THE STATUTE ITSELF HAS NOT BEEN OPENED by this process, so no sentence may state the legal mechanism. The Federal Register was searched on three query forms on 23 August 2026 and carries no rescission notice; the scope of that search is recorded at SRC-371 and does not extend to other agencies or to the Congressional Record || SUPERSEDED 24 AUGUST 2026, AND THE STRUCK CLAIM IS QUOTED SO A PARTIAL READING CANNOT REINTRODUCE IT: this row read 'Syria remains designated a State Sponsor of Terrorism by the United States as at 23 August 2026'. THAT WAS TRUE ON 23 AUGUST AND IS FALSE FROM 24 AUGUST. The Secretary of State's press statement of 24 August 2026 reads 'Today, I authorized the formal rescission of Syria's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SST), following the conclusion of the mandatory 45-day Congressional notification period.' SRC-398. THE THREE THINGS THIS ROW RECORDED AS NOT ESTABLISHED ARE NOW ANSWERED IN PART. The page is NOT updated promptly: it still named Syria hours after the statement. Rescission did NOT take effect on bare expiry of the period: the period concluded 22 August and the Secretary authorised on 24 August. Whether an instrument has been published in the Federal Register is STILL NOT ESTABLISHED and a query of all 49 State Department documents since 1 July 2026 returns none. THE STATUTE ITSELF IS STILL NOT OPENED BY THIS PROCESS.
Specialist
Sanctions counsel
Downstream
Chapters 6, 8 and 10
Action
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