{"id":112680,"date":"2024-03-30T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T09:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=112680"},"modified":"2026-06-21T11:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T11:21:57","slug":"u-s-imposes-visa-restrictions-against-10-officials-in-syrian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their immediate families for involving in human rights violations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/announcement-of-additional-visa-restriction-targets-for-individuals-involved-in-the-repression-of-syrians\/#:~:text=In%20December%202023%2C%20Secretary%20Blinken,the%20repression%20of%20Syrians%2C%20especially\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of State<\/a> said, in a statement, that Antony Blinken, Secretary of State \u201cis taking steps to impose visa restrictions against 10 government officials and members of their immediate families for these officials\u2019 involvement in serious human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to promote accountability for those involved in repression of Syrians and justice for victims and survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the Department stressed that the U.S. will not normalize relations with \u201cthe Assad regime absent authentic progress towards a lasting political solution in line with UNSCR 2254.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On March 26, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112565\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imposed sanctions<\/a> against 11 individuals and entities for their involvement in supporting the Syrian \u201cregime\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Iman Abbas<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their immediate families for involving in human rights violations. The Department of State said, in a statement, that Antony Blinken, Secretary of State \u201cis taking steps to impose visa restrictions against 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-politics","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North press agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NPA.SYR\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"541\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"serbest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@NPA_English\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@NPA_English\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"serbest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"serbest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b81a7a936dc1901a0045bed26fe324b9\"},\"headline\":\"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":165,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"HOME\",\"Politics\",\"SYRIA\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/\",\"name\":\"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00\",\"description\":\"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":541,\"caption\":\"U.S. Department of State\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/112680\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"North press agency\",\"description\":\"North press agency\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"North press agency\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/npasyria.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/08\\\/npasyria.jpg\",\"width\":682,\"height\":388,\"caption\":\"North press agency\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/NPA.SYR\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/NPA_English\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/northpressagency\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCyGMim0bdq_6W-ryV9WI29A\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b81a7a936dc1901a0045bed26fe324b9\",\"name\":\"serbest\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"serbest\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/npasyria.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/serbest\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government","description":"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government","og_description":"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their","og_url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/","og_site_name":"North press agency","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NPA.SYR\/","article_published_time":"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":541,"url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"serbest","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@NPA_English","twitter_site":"@NPA_English","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"serbest","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/"},"author":{"name":"serbest","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b81a7a936dc1901a0045bed26fe324b9"},"headline":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government","datePublished":"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/"},"wordCount":165,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg","articleSection":["HOME","Politics","SYRIA"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/","url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/","name":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg","datePublished":"2024-03-30T09:48:29+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-21T11:21:57+00:00","description":"QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) \u2013 The U.S. Department of State imposed on Friday visa restrictions against 10 officials of the Syrian government and their","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-U.S.-State-Department-building-AP.jpg","width":1000,"height":541,"caption":"U.S. Department of State"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112680\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"U.S. imposes visa restrictions against 10 officials in Syrian government"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/","name":"North press agency","description":"North press agency","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#organization","name":"North press agency","url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/npasyria.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/npasyria.jpg","width":682,"height":388,"caption":"North press agency"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NPA.SYR\/","https:\/\/x.com\/NPA_English","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/northpressagency\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyGMim0bdq_6W-ryV9WI29A"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b81a7a936dc1901a0045bed26fe324b9","name":"serbest","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9f8cb8026d3bb7ee1dab9edc4fc9ab7f73cf5f13c8ce66b0baf009a2e95025b7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"serbest"},"url":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/author\/serbest\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138525,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112680\/revisions\/138525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}