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Associated Press: US to hit Russia with new sanctions for aiding Syria’s Assad

Published April 16, 2018. Updated April 16 at 5:40 pm

Syrian men pray as buses with Jaish al-Islam fighters and their families on board arrive from their former rebel bastion of Douma in Eastern Ghouta at the Abu al-Zindeen checkpoint controlled by Turkish-backed rebel fighters near the Syrian town of al-Bab in the northern Aleppo province, on April 14, 2018. The Syrian army on April 14 declared that all anti-regime forces had left Eastern Ghouta, nearly two months into a blistering offensive on the rebel enclave. / AFP PHOTO / Nazeer al-Khatib

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U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has indicated new economic sanctions will be announced April 16 against Russia for enabling the government of Syrian leader Bashar Assad to continue using chemical weapons.

The ambassador to the U.N. said Russia has blocked six attempts by the U.N. Security Council to make it easier to investigate the use of chemical weapons.