{"id":107230,"date":"2020-12-23T14:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107230"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:47:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T06:47:49","slug":"us-imposes-fresh-sanctions-on-syria-in-push-for-assad-to-end-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=107230","title":{"rendered":"US imposes fresh sanctions on Syria in push for Assad to end war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/000_8VV2M2-800x520.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Destroyed buildings are pictured at the Palestinian Yarmuk camp, on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States slapped fresh sanctions on Syria, targeting its central bank and blacklisting several people and entities in a continued effort to cut off funds for President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest action, building on sanctions imposed on Syria earlier this year, marked another round in a US campaign to push Assad&#8217;s government back into UN-led negotiations to end the country\u2019s nearly decade-long war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The \u202fUnited States will\u202f continue to seek accountability for those prolonging this conflict,&#8221; U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions of people have fled Syria and millions more have been internally displaced since a crackdown by Assad on protesters in 2011 led to civil war with Iran and Russia backing the government and the United States supporting the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the new sanctions add two individuals, nine business entities and the Central Bank of Syria to Washington&#8217;s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. State Department also designated Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of the Syrian president, accusing her of impeding efforts for a political resolution to the war, and several members of her family, Pompeo said. Asma al-Assad was previously hit with sanctions in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those blacklisted were Lina Mohammed Nazir al-Kinayeh,\u202f one\u202f of Assad&#8217;s key advisers;\u202f her husband, Syrian parliamentarian Mohammed Hammam Mohammed Adnan Masouti; several government affiliated \u202fbusinesses; and General Kifah Moulhem, commander of Syria&#8217;s Military Intelligence organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s action freezes any US\u00a0assets of those blacklisted and generally bar Americans from dealing with them. Non-Americans that engage in certain transactions with the targeted people and entities may also be hit with sanctions, the Treasury said. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destroyed buildings are pictured at the Palestinian Yarmuk camp, on the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United States slapped fresh sanctions on Syria, targeting its central bank and blacklisting several people and entities in a continued effort to cut off funds for President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":107236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}