EU adds two individuals and three Syrian entities on sanctions lists - Enab Baladi

The European Union (EU) on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Syrian paramilitary groups and two of their commanders over human rights abuses linked to ethnic violence that erupted in March.

The European Union on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Syrian militias and two of their leaders for serious human rights violations in connection with their participation in ethnically motivated violence that claimed more than 1,700 lives in March in the predominantly Alawite coastal region of western Syria. The report comes from the AFP agency. Brussels added the pro-Turkish Sultan Suleiman Shah Division, the Hamza Division and the Sultan M…

EU adds two individuals and three Syrian entities on sanctions lists - Enab Baladi

The European Union has added two individuals and three entities to its sanctions lists concerning Syria, due to their connections with events that took place in the Syrian coast last March. According to the EU‘s decision issued today, Wednesday, May 28, among the sanctioned individuals are the leaders Mohammed Hussein al-Jassem, nicknamed “Abu Amsha,” and Saif Bolad “Abu Bakr,” commander of the al-Hamzat division. The decision stated that the en…