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Intel: Congress pushes for Syria sanctions ahead of key deadline

A bipartisan group of four key lawmakers renewed their calls on the Donald Trump administration to implement a stringent sanctions package on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government today.

A Syrian parliamentarian and university student Janset Azan, 60, walks at her office decorated with a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria March 5, 2020. Picture taken March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar - RC2TFF94HKUU
Syrian parliamentarian and university student Janset Azan, 60, walks in her office decorated with a picture of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, March 5, 2020. — REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar

A bipartisan group of four key lawmakers renewed their calls on the Donald Trump administration to implement a stringent sanctions package on Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government today.  

The chairmen and ranking members of the foreign relations panels in both chambers — Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), and Sens. James Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ) — joined forces to issue the statement ahead of the June 17 deadline to issue the sanctions under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which became law in December 2019.

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