The jihadi regime ruling Syria after overthrowing the Assad dynasty in December dispatched its foreign minister, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday to seek foreign investment for their war-torn and terrorist-haunted land.
Saudi Arabia hosted a large summit on Sunday — featuring American and European as well as Middle Eastern diplomats — to discuss the future of Syria, during which its officials called for lifting sanctions on the country to give its new regime a chance to recover from the civil war.
During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Friday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan argued that squeezing Venezuela’s oil sector hasn’t worked and that more targeted sanctions and rewards for information leading to the arrest of bad actors
During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Friday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan defended waiting to impose the large sanctions on Russia’s energy the Biden administration imposed on Friday by stating that “If we had sanctioned Russia’s
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lamented the hesitation on the part of outgoing President Joe Biden to preventatively sanction Russia before the 2022 full-scale invasion of his country in an interview published on Sunday, describing threats to sanction Moscow only after an invasion “bullshit.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. French Hill (R-AR), vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, on Thursday wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding more details of a cyberattack on Treasury’s computer systems allegedly perpetrated by hackers linked to the Chinese government.
A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.
China’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday announced the assets of two Canadian human rights groups have been frozen in retaliation for their advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims and Tibetans.
The Iranian regime has “intensified” its secretive development of nuclear detonators at covert facilities, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed, citing intelligence that exposes alarming advancements in weaponization technologies.
A number of international media reports have exposed an operation called “Alabuga Start” that lures young African women to work at a Russian drone factory and then effectively enslaves them – but African governments have done little to protect their citizens from exploitation.
The U.S. plans to introduce sanctions against Serbia´s main gas supplier that is controlled by Russia, Serbia´s president said Saturday.
The outgoing Biden-Harris administration gave Iran $10 billion in sanctions relief just days after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, despite Iran’s ongoing attacks against Israel and support for terrorist organizations.
The communist regime in Cuba — a U.S.-designated state sponsor of terrorism — reportedly tricked the outgoing administration of U.S. President Joe Biden into funding its repressive military through a “civilian” company that handles remittances sent to Cubans from abroad, El Nuevo Herald revealed on Tuesday.
Lawmakers from Venezuela’s socialist regime passed a law on Thursday to heavily punish individuals that call for international human right sanctions against the authoritarian regime with 30 years prison time and a 60-year ban from running for public office positions.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) urged President Joe Biden to “enforce the oil export sanctions against Iran with more muscle and vigor.” And said that because Iran is currently in a weak position,
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky called the wave of Russian drones that struck his nation overnight into Tuesday a “record number”.
The lame-duck Biden-Harris administration is slapping new sanctions on Israelis, while sending nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in additional funding to the Palestinians, adding insult to injury in the closing weeks of its failed policy.
Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari used the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday as a platform to demand sanctions relief for the terrorism-supporting regime in Tehran.
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that the incoming Trump administration will have to “cripple” Iran’s economy to keep them from promoting terrorism through their proxies and stated that if there are
The Iranian rial plummeted to an all-time low on Wednesday after Donald Trump secured reelection to the White House, signaling apprehension among the terrorist-supporting regime and a loss of confidence among its supporters.
The Iranian regime loudly insisted on Wednesday morning that the outcome of the U.S. presidential election does not matter to Tehran’s long-term plans, because there was no real difference between victorious President-elect Donald Trump and defeated Vice President Kamala Harris from the Iranian perspective.
China hit American drone manufacturer Skydio with sanctions this month, potentially cutting the company’s supply chain and preventing it from supplying more drones to the Ukrainian military.
The China-dominated BRICS economic bloc on Thursday announced it has added 13 nations as “partner countries,” including three African nations: Nigeria, Algeria, and Uganda. These partners will have much more limited involvement than full BRICS members, but some or all of them could aspire to membership in the future.
Michigan’s Democrat Senate candidate, Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), remained silent as President Joe Biden declined to impose sanctions in 2021 on Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind the Russian gas pipeline to Germany, which a donor to one of Slotkin’s Congressional campaigns lobbied for.
The China-led BRICS coalition published a declaration from its annual summit on Wednesday focused heavily on the alleged threat of “climate change,” condemnation of human rights sanctions on its rogue members states, and controlling “misinformation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin scored a public relations victory on the second day of the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, by embracing Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — a photo opportunity that sent the message that Western efforts to diplomatically and economically isolate Russia for invading Ukraine have failed.
During an interview with the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Wednesday, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on criticism of the Biden administration that their Iran sanctions policy has allowed large sums of
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday that the BRICS economic bloc, led by China and Russia, is working to create its own international payment system because the existing Western system is too politicized, and too vulnerable to pressure from the United States.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” CNBC Contributor and Global Head of Commodity Strategy for RBC Capital Markets Helima Croft stated that “five years ago, we saw more significant sanctions enforcement” on Iranian oil, but “Now, we
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon stated that it’s crucial that the United States, along with other democracies, “will impose sanctions, crippling sanctions against Iran, because today they have
The Biden administration expanded its sanctions on Israelis on Tuesday, even as Israel faced attacks from Hezbollah and Iran, listing new sanctions against “Hilltop Youth,” an organization that does not actually exist.
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil spoke at the United Nations on Wednesday, accusing Israel – with the “complicity” of the United States and the European Union – of “the greatest crime of extermination and genocide since the one committed by Hitler.”
U.S. authorities seized a $13 million luxury plane used by Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday.
The Venezuelan newspaper Tal Cual reported on Sunday that the United States received 12 shipments of crude oil and asphalt from Venezuela.
The Taliban on Wednesday celebrated the three-year anniversary of the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal that gave them power in Afghanistan, more secure in power than ever despite constant complaints from the international community about their appalling human rights offenses.
A group of Christian supporters of Israel has sued the Biden administration in federal court over sanctions on Israel that, it says, violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it targets protected speech and assembly.
On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “On Balance,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby responded to a question on why Iran is getting sanctions waivers from the Biden administration when it’s funding anti-Israel protests in the U.S. by stating that
Russia bragged that the worldwide tech outage did not affect its airlines and banks, thanks to its countermeasures against Western sanctions.
China signed a deal to import $25 million in Afghan cotton, providing income to the Taliban and muddying China’s cotton supply lines.
Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, announced that his regime will resume direct negotiations with the United States.
