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Washington - Rana Abtar

US Senator Warns of 'Rehabilitating Assad’s Regime'

Senator Jim Risch during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing (Reuters)

US Senator Jim Risch, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called on the US administration to do more to help Syrians.

In a statement issued by his office marking the 11th anniversary of the conflict in Syria, Risch said: “Since 2011, dictator Bashar al-Assad, backed by Russia and Iran, has overseen a campaign of death and destruction so horrific in scale that the UN stopped counting deaths in 2014 when the number reached over 100,000 civilians.”

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