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CHICAGO: The US on Tuesday expanded sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime targeting 18 individuals and organizations including parliamentarians, military figures, financiers, and members of the family of the leader’s wife, Asma. As well as Assad’s wife and her immediate relatives, a member of the Syrian parliament, several businesses, and the Central Bank of Syria were among what US Department of State officials described as the “toxic mafia” it said had been hiding money for their own benefit stolen from the Syrian people. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Am...

posted by Hannity Staff - 2.13.18 Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime issued a direct threat to Israel on Tuesday, warning the region’s only democracy of “more surprises” should their air force continue to operate over Syrian territory, reports Reuters. The threat comes just days after the Syrian military -armed with equipment from Iran- shot down an Israel F16 fighter jet; prompting a fierce response from the Israeli military which immediately destroyed the anti-air battery. “Have full confidence the aggressor will be greatly surprised because it thought this war – this war of attri...

Dec 22, 2020 5:41 PM EDT The Trump administration on Tuesday announced more sanctions on Syria, intensifying pressure on President Bashar Assad to end the country’s vicious, nearly decade-long conflict. The new sanctions target Syria’s central bank, Assad’s in-laws, and others. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the United States was intent on “holding accountable the Assad regime for the atrocities it has committed against its own people.” “The Treasury Department will continue to use all of its tools to expose those who stand with the Assad re...

US imposes new unilateral sanctions on Syria US imposes new unilateral sanctions on Syria Washington, Dec 22 (Prensa Latina) Less than a month before the end of his term, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday approved new unilateral sanctions on Syria to worsen the situation in that African nation. The US Department of State announced some coercive sanctions on Asma Assad, Syrian President Bashar Al Assad's wife, and members of her family, under the pretext that they are undermining the efforts to reach a political solution in what Washington calls a civil war, but it is really an attack spons...

US State Department Sanctions Wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad The Media Line Staff 12/22/2020 The US State Department announced new sanctions on Asma Assad, the wife of Syrian President Bashar Assad, for preventing efforts to resolve the long-running Syrian civil war. Asama Assad “has spearheaded efforts on behalf of the regime to consolidate economic and political power, including by using her so-called charities and civil society organizations,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Tuesday. Sanctions also will be levied against several members of Asma Assad�...