Washington has issued new "counter terrorism" sanctions targeting individuals and entities linked to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, details posted to the US Treasury Department's website on Thursday showed. It announced sanctions against several Lebanese officials it said were aligned with Hezbollah and members of the sanctioned Alaa Hassan Hamieh business network for obstructing Lebanon’s peace process and delaying the disarmament of Hezbollah. The Treasury said its Office of Foreign Assets Control was also designating individuals in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, who it said were raising funds and operating front companies to generate revenue for Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group.
