A Syrian businessman has been placed under European Union sanctions for brokering oil deals between the Syrian authorities and one of its supposed opponents, the jihadist group Islamic State, in the latest round of targeted sanctions against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
This is the first time that EU sanctions have explicitly drawn a connection between the Syrian regime and Islamic State, also known as ISIS, the Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) or Daesh.
George Haswani, who heads a large engineering company, Hesco, is alleged to have bought oil on behalf of the regime from ISIL, a statement that indirectly …read more
Source: European Voice
