The U.S. is 'in active pursuit' of an oil tanker after President Donald Trump announced a total blockade of Venezuela's oil ...

Kyiv's European allies slapped new sanctions Tuesday on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ...

The United States will initiate a controversial procedure called "snapback" at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday in a bid to unilaterally reimpose sanctions on Iran. In 2015, after long ...

U.S. relations with Russia were at an all-time low during the last few months of President Barack Obama's administration. The Trump administration signaled that it hoped for better relations with the ...

Two Words That Describe the Su-57: Total Failure? Western sanctions have stifled Russia’s production of the Sukhoi Su-57, its fifth-generation stealth fighter, by restricting access to essential ...

Ten years after wide-ranging UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme were lifted under a landmark deal with world powers, the economic measures are likely to be reimposed Saturday evening. The ...

Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has lived and worked in Iran, has ...

Numbers are everywhere in Washington. Budgets, deficits, statistical studies, probability analysis, trade figures, and so on. Sometimes, numbers are being used opaquely, to obscure what’s really going ...

Over the last two decades, the U.S. government has made sanctions its primary tool of economic statecraft. The United States has become the world’s sanctions superpower due to the far-reaching impact ...