US names Cuba as State Sponsor of Terrorism

Current GK ( Master) International Affairs

The United States recently designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism.
The United States lists the countries that repeatedly provide support for acts of international terrorism under the State Sponsors of Terrorism.
The list was first released in 1979 with Iraq, Libya, Syria and South Yemen in it.
Cuba was added in 1992, Iran in 1984. Later North Korea and Sudan were added in 1988 and 1993 respectively. Later South Yemen was removed in 1990.
Iraq has been removed twice from the list, once in 1982 and then again in 2004. Libya was removed in 2006. North Korea was removed in 2008 and again re-added in 2017.
Cuba was removed in 2015 and has now been re-added.
Iran, Syria and North Korea are the other countries that are currently in the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Sudan was recently removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Sudan was recently removed to sign Israel-Sudan Normalisation Agreement. The agreement was signed in October 2020 to normalize relations between Israel and Sudan.
The agreement was signed after Bahrain and UAE signed peaceful agreements with Israel.