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Intel: US ramps up Syria pressure campaign with sanctions targeting Assad’s teen son

Russian soldiers sit in their vehicle next to a portrait of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in Khan Sheikhun in the southern countryside of the Idlib province on September 25, 2019. - With military backing from Russia, President Bashar al-Assad's forces have retaken large parts of Syria from rebels and jihadists since 2015, and now control around 60 percent of the country. Russia often refers to troops it deployed in Syria as military "advisers" even though its forces and warplanes are also directly in

The United States today announced 14 new targets, including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s 18-year-old son, in a fresh round of sanctions aimed at squeezing the Syrian regime and its financial backers.  

“It is time for Assad’s needless, brutal war to end.  This, above all, is what our sanctions campaign is meant to bring about,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. 

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