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.
