Sharjah firm blacklisted for flouting Syria sanctionsThe US on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a UAE company for supplying specialty petroleum products to the Syrian government, and blacklisted two additional Syrian companies. Pangates, based in Sharjah, supplied petroleum products t More… |
US, EU struggling to make Syria sanctions biteTwo months into anti-government protests in Syria last year, as the military crackdown grew more vicious, the European Union and US introduced sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad, his security chiefs and members of his family. More… |
Arab League prepares for Syria sanctionsArab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protests against President Bashar al-Assad. Damascus missed More… |