Syria faces another round of sanctions, as European Union targeted three Syrian companies in an expanded sanctions list on Saturday, including a real estate bank, an investment group and a transport firm, the EU's Official Journal showed.
European Union agreed on Friday to impose sanctions on Syrian oil exports and to expand its list of around 50 people targeted by an assets freeze and travel ban.
Three companies, including a bank, will see their assets in the EU frozen as punishment for the regime’s deadly repression of protesters. The EU will also expand its list of people targeted by an assets freeze and travel ban, adding four businessmen accused of bankrolling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, the diplomats said earlier.