Administration of Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 2023

October 12, 2023

On October 14, 2019, by Executive Order 13894, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 *et seq*.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in and in relation to Syria.

The situation in and in relation to Syria, and in particular the actions by the Government of Turkey to conduct a military offensive into northeast Syria, undermines the campaign to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, endangers civilians, and further threatens to undermine the peace, security, and stability in the region, and continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. For this reason, the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13894 of October 14, 2019, must continue in effect beyond October 14, 2023. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13894 with respect to the situation in and in relation to Syria.

This notice shall be published in the *Federal Register *and transmitted to the Congress.

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

The White House, October 12, 2023.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., October 12, 2023] NOTE: This notice was published in the *Federal Register *on October 13.

Categories: Notices : Syria, U.S. national emergency, continuation.

Subjects: Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist organization; Syria, civil war and sectarian conflict; Syria, U.S. national emergency, continuation; Turkey, role in Syria.

DCPD Number: DCPD202300896.

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