NEW YORK – The United States designated 14 Syrian individuals and entities for sanctions Wednesday including President Bashar
NEW YORK – The United States designated 14 Syrian individuals and entities for sanctions Wednesday, including President Bashar al-Assad’s eldest son and a division of the Syrian Army.
“It is time for Assad’s needless, brutal war to end,” U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft told a Security Council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria. “This, above all, is what our sanctions campaign is meant to bring about.”
The designations are under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which was enacted last month, as well as a 2011 Executive Order.
The Caesar Act takes its name from the alias of a Syrian defector who smuggled out of the country tens of thousands of images of the torture and executions happening in Syrian government prisons in the early days of the conflict.
