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UK announces new sanctions against allies of Syria s Assad after decade of brutality
The sanctions come on the ten-year anniversary of the Syrian civil war
15 March 2021 • 2:21pm
Free Syrian Army fighter from the Al-Faruk brigade, center, steps on a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad
Credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File
Britain has sanctioned senior members of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government for their role in the persecution and killing of civilians during the country’s ten-year civil war.
Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, on Monday announced travel bans and asset freezes against six figures he says were complicit in a “wholesale assault on the very citizens they should be protecting.”