US Bans Entry to Syria Security Agent Over Killings on Video

A blindfolded Syrian man is pushed by a Syrian agent before he was shot dead and thrown into a large pit full of bodies in the Tadamon neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, in a frame grab from a 2013 video. AP Photo

BEIRUT—The U.S. State Department on Monday banned entry into the U.S. of a Syrian intelligence member who appeared in a video leaked last year showing him fatally shooting people during the country’s 12-year conflict.

The ban against Amjad Yousef, a member of Syria’s notorious Military Intelligence Branch 227, includes his wife and immediate members of his family, the State Department said in a statement.