War On Terror? Trump Pulls Syrian Al-Qaeda From US Terror List

by | Aug 26, 2026

A quarter century after the War on Terror was launched, after 9/11, the Trump Administration has removed the Syrian government – headed by a former al-Qaeda leader – and the al-Nusra Front – the local ISIS franchise – from the US Sponsors of Terror List. Twenty-five years, trillions of dollars, and millions of lives later…was it all a charade? Also today…what will Trump name next? And: your TP is about to become scarce again.

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  • Daniel McAdams

    Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity and co-Producer/co-Host, Ron Paul Liberty Report. Daniel served as the foreign affairs, civil liberties, and defense/intel policy advisor to U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-Texas) from 2001 until Dr. Paul’s retirement at the end of 2012. From 1993-1999 he worked as a journalist based in Budapest, Hungary, and traveled through the former communist bloc as a human rights monitor and election observer.

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