July 7 (UPI) — The Trump administration announced Monday it will rescind the terrorist designation given to the Syrian group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

In a document from the State Department, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote that the United States has revoked “the designation of al-Nusrah Front, also known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, as a foreign terrorist organization.”

The revocation will go into effect upon its official publication Tuesday, but the letter already has been made available to read by the general public.

HTS is currently leading Syria as a transitional government after it led the overthrow of former dictator President Bashar al-Assad in December. The group’s origins come from a Syrian branch of al-Qaida, but it severed ties several years ago. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, HTS has about 40,000 members, as of early this year, and had employed “insurgency tactics” in its fight against the Assad regime.

The State Department added HTS to the Nusrah Front’s existing foreign terrorist organization designation in June 2018.

“Tomorrow’s action follows the announced dissolution of HTS and the Syrian government’s commitment to combat terrorism in all its forms,” Rubio said in a statement.

“This FTO revocation is an important step in fulfilling President [Donald] Trump’s vision of a stable, unified and peaceful Syria.”

Trump directed the State Department last week to review the status of HTS as a terrorist group as part of an executive order that removed most sanctions formerly levied on Syria, while leaving those in place that target Assad and his regime.

“I took off the sanctions because if I didn’t do that, they wouldn’t have had a chance. And Syria has a chance,” Trump said last week during a press conference in Florida.