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BEIRUT: The border region between Lebanon and Syria in Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon often experiences security tensions that rise and fall depending on the smuggling operations being carried out there. On Saturday, Syrian army border guards fired at a number of young men at one of the illegal crossings, known as the Arida border crossing, in the border village of Al-Qasr, killing one Lebanese man and wounding another. Smuggling occurs in both directions, but smuggling from Lebanon to Syria...

While the better outcome would be to cancel or at least suspend unilateral sanctions at least until the global health crisis is over, Douhan sees this outcome as unrealistic. Her more modest suggestions include making impact assessments of all sanctions that countries seek to impose before they do so and having a general good-faith attitude to humanitarian organizations instead of obstructing their work. Comment: The innocents dying due to embargoes on medical supplies will surely app...

Follow RT on Unilateral sanctions kill, sicken and starve people in the nations that are targeted and make humanitarian work increasingly difficult and risky, a UN rapporteur has said, in a damning assessment. The Covid-19 pandemic could have brought humanity together in cooperation to combat the deadly disease. Instead, 2020 has seen an expansion of the use of unilateral sanctions, which target entire nations and hurt their ability to respond to outbreaks on their territory while under...

The United States has monitored efforts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iran to coordinate with ISIS to attack areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and destabilize the region, leading to the withdrawal of US forces from the region, according to deputy assistant secretary of state for Levant affairs and the special envoy for Syria, Joel Rayburn.

US Syria envoy Joel Rayburn also told Congress that non-Syrians could soon be sanctioned under the Caesar Act.

Policy like abandoning our allies in syria. putting our feelings aside, an impeached president who doesnt feel impeached can be a very dangerous man. joining me now to discuss. congressman, i have a lot of questions for you about the very real consequences of the presidents lack of shame. first i want to acknowledge something important off the top. last night president trump signed into law the caesar act, a bill you co sponsored which sanctions for war crimes. its a significant piece of legisla...