Sanctions

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.

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.

Spotify has deleted the pages of several Russian musicians who support Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, according to a report.

The European Union on Monday sanctioned Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe.

A bipartisan bloc in the House of Representatives spurned President Joe Biden Tuesday to sanction officials with the International Criminal Court after the body’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leaders for alleged war crimes.

The Biden administration lifted financial restrictions on Cuba on Tuesday, allowing “independent private sector entrepreneurs” in the communist-ruled nation access to the United States banking system to open U.S. bank accounts.

Russia is expanding a factory to produce at least 6,000 Iranian Shahed suicide drones per year, according to the Prana Network.

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that Russia’s economy is “doing just fine” because China and India are buying their oil and while the delays in supplying Ukraine has hurt

On Tuesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised President Joe Biden’s denunciation of the ICC arrest warrant against him and the push to sanction the ICC over their “terrible singling out of Israel” that

Nicolás Maduro said that, following his regime’s July 28 sham presidential “election,” Venezuela may join BRICS and have sanctions lifted.

During an interview aired on Monday’s edition of CNN International’s “Amanpour,” International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan reacted to threats from some Senate Republicans to end American support for the ICC, sanction the court’s employees and associates, and bar

The governments of India and Iran announced a decade-long agreement on Tuesday that would give India control and allow it to develop the port of Chabahar, a stop on the Gulf of Oman that offers India a favorable route to the Persian Gulf.

U.S. acting ambassador to Colombia Francisco Palmieri said the Biden administration is, once again, willing to ease sanctions on Venezuela.

A report published on Monday by Bloomberg, citing the Russian Finance Ministry, found that Moscow generated over double the amount of revenue in April 2024 from oil sales and taxes compared to April 2023.

China’s state-linked electronics giant Huawei has reportedly been “secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities” through a Washington-based nonprofit called the Optica Foundation.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week broke the uneasy silence among China’s leadership and offered public comments on the upcoming American election, which stands a good chance of returning outspoken China critic Donald Trump to the White House.

LNG Energy Group, a Canada-based company owned by billionaire Texas businessman Rodney Lewis, brokered a deal with Venezuela’s PDVSA.

A report published from watchdog group 38 North suggests U.S. animation companies may have unwittingly used work from North Korea.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad claims his regime has meetings “from time to time” with officials from the Biden administration.

A left-wing group with Muslim Brotherhood ties is behind the Biden administration’s imminent announcement of sanctions against an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit composed of religious soldiers, according to NGO Monitor.

The Biden administration’s reported decision to sanction a religious unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for alleged past human rights abuses will come back to haunt the U.S. as other countries do the same to American units.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden reinstated oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday, a recognition that lifting the sanctions did nothing to entice the socialist regime to host a free and fair election.

China’s state-owned oil company CNPC, the China National Petroleum Corporation, has signed a $400 million deal with the military junta that controls Niger, providing a much-needed infusion of cash after the coup damaged relations with Niger’s previous big oil customers, the United States and France.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden’s generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” host Joy Reid stated that Iran’s attack on Israel “was set in motion…by Israel, whose military struck an Iranian diplomatic compound in Syria earlier this month. That attack killed eleven people, including two

The ruling socialist regime in Venezuela documented an 18-percent increase in oil output in the first trimester of 2024 when compared to the same period in 2023, according to information published by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in its latest April 2024 report.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby defended the waiver of sanctions that allow Iraq to purchase energy from Iran “to make sure that the Iraqi people have the

During an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby responded to a question on Iran continuing to sell oil to China and their output hitting five-year highs by stating that sanctions against Iran are

The administration of leftist President Joe Biden did not move to restore expiring sanctions in Iran’s drone and ballistic missile production at the United Nations in October, shortly after the Iran-backed massacre of an estimated 1,200 people in Israel and Saturday’s unprecedented direct missile assault by Iran on the country.

On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) called on Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to pass the SHIP Act, which the House passed on a bipartisan basis in November, to crack down on Iranian oil revenues. Lawler

The U.S. and UK will begin restricting the trade of new Russian-origin metals on global metal exchanges and in derivatives trading.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) reacted to U.S. European Command Commander and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Christopher Cavoli telling Congress that Russia’s military has “grown back to what they were before” the invasion of

Venezuela’s socialist regime announced this week the launching of a reality television show called M Factor, where local musicians will compete to have their songs become part of dictator Nicolás Maduro’s official soundtrack for the upcoming sham presidential election.

The latest oil price-tracking data suggests Russian crude oil is selling far above price caps imposed by the G7 nations in 2022.