EU eyeing easing of Syrian sanctions

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The European Union is eyeing an easing of sanctions on Syria, one month after Islamist rebels overthrew the government of Bashar al-Assad.

EU Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas announced that all EU foreign ministers would meet in Brussels on Jan. 27 to discuss how to ease sanctions on the war-torn country, Reuters reported. The sanctions currently in place are primarily against the former government of Assad and his allies. Despite the recorded war crimes committed by the ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an Al Qaeda offshoot, discussions of sanctions were almost entirely focused on the former government.

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