Beijing’s order blocking US sanctions on five oil refineries marks first invocation of 2021 law.

Although Russia has managed to circumvent sanctions partially or even completely, in the end, it has to pay a very high price for it, Elina Valtonen, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ...

When a government imposes sanctions on a country, the aviation industry tends to feel the pressure faster than almost any ...

(CNN) — The Iranian middle class, long a force of political moderation, stability, economic growth, and the base of the country’s reform movement, is shrinking fast under the pressure of Western ...

Sanctions must be treated as an extension of national defense, not a tool of diplomatic escalation. Their value is in preemption rather than punishment. Sanctions are a cat-and-mouse game. They always ...

On May 2, 2011, a US Navy SEAL helicopter soft-crashed into the side of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Within the hour, bin Laden was identified and assassinated. The world’s most ...