U.S. hits Syria with toughest sanctions yet to push Assad to end war

The US on Wed imposed its most sweeping sanctions ever targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to choke off revenue of the gov. in a bid to force it back to UN-led negotiations & broker an end to the country’s decade-long war. Syria is already under U.S. & EU sanctions that have frozen the assets of the state and hundreds of companies and individuals export and investment in Syria by Americans.