‘Assad can’t clean up his act with a natural disaster’

The World

Since the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government has tried to argue that Western sanctions against it are hindering its aid efforts. But US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells The World’s Marco Werman she isn’t buying it.

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