The US Government has sanctioned six more Assad regime officials and military commanders.

The step was announced on Thursday, on the seventh anniversary of regime sarin attacks near Damascus that killed more than 1,400 civilians.

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The Treasury Department announced measures against Luna al-Shibl, the regime’s top press officer, and her husband Mohamad Ammar Saati, a prominent member of the Baath Party and former MP.

The State Department on Thursday also sanctioned National Defence Forces commander Fadi Saqr and other leaders of regime military units.

In June, the Trump Administration implemented sanctions under the “Caesar Act”, which highlighted the regime’s crimes against humanity such as the deaths of tens of thousands of detainees through executions, torture, and poor conditions.

The sanctions were imposed on Bashar al-Assad, his wife Asma, other members of the ruling elite, and companies linked with the regime. They freeze any US assets of those blacklisted and generally bar US interests from any interaction.

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The Act also highlighted war crimes such as the August 21, 2013 sarin attacks on the East Ghouta and West Ghouta regions near Damascus. Seeking to push rebels back from the capital, Assad’s military fired munitions, filled with the nerve agent, on seven sites.

Within hours, more than 1,400 civilians suffocated to death. Many were trapped as they sheltered in their basements from conventional bombing and shelling.

See from 2013: Syria, August 22 — A Chemical Weapons Attack, & Now A Regime Offensive