EU Suspends Sanctions on Syria in Banking, Energy, and Transport Sectors

On Monday, the European Union suspended economic sanctions that were imposed on Damascus during the reign of the ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
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The foreign ministers of the 27 EU member states made an official decision targeting the banking, energy, and transport sectors.

These sanctions were primarily imposed by the West in response to Assad's violent crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011, which ignited the country's civil war.

Some of these sanctions were also imposed by the United States before the conflict broke out, as Syria was designated as a "state sponsor of terrorism" in 1979 and additional sanctions were imposed in 2004.