Pandemic Amid an Economic Crisis: Challenges for Syria

... retroactively a voluntary sum of 134,523 U.S. dollars for supplying goods and services to Syria (as well as to the sanctioned Iran and Crimea) for the period from November 5, 2011, to October 18, 2018. In seemingly friendly Lebanon, which is in dire need of Western donor assistance to overcome its own crisis, the authorities seem to be ready to do anything to avoid falling under the "Caesar sanctions". For example, on September 6, 2020, local customs officers arrested a vessel with 4 million litres of petrol ...