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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will introduce legislation intended to cut off Syria's "economic lifelines" with Russia and Iran, he said in a hearing. In a hearing Thursday on U.S. policy towards the war-torn Mediterranean nation, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said that he would propose legislation "in the weeks ahead" that would reflect a strategy to increase support of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, improve humanitarian aid to the country and target the finances of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. A spokesman for Menendez declined to comment except to say that the bill is "still...