Sanctions target backers of Islamic State and Assad regime

Foreign secretary reveals clampdown on businessmen and companies supporting the shabiha militia and Syrian regime Sanctions have been placed on people and institutions suspected of being linked to Islamic State terrorists and Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, the UK foreign secretary has revealed. Philip Hammond said that a middleman in oil deals between the two was among those targeted by the European Union. A company that was said to have paid Syrian shabiha militias, who have been accused of c...