Far too early to lift US sanctions on Syria, lawmakers say
"We're all really happy that Assad is gone," Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told Reuters.
A man walks on a poster of Bashar al-Assad as a sanitation worker removes it from the street downtown, after Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria December 10, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH DALSH)ByREUTERS