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Byline: Joel Achenbach, Samantha Schmidt The United States has seized a luxury aircraft that officials say was illegally purchased and âsmuggledâ out of the country for use by Venezuelan President [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein The United States and its Western allies took a key step Saturday toward using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's war effort, moving closer to providing another [...]

Byline: Ellen Francis and Andrew Jeong Russian attacks hit cities around Ukraine, killing at least 17 people, officials said early Friday. In Kyiv, authorities said the capital came under the [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung The Biden administration said on Saturday it would lift a key oil sanction against Venezuela, marking the first significant crack in a years-long U.S. embargo that could [...]

Byline: Miriam Berger Demonstrators in Iran are struggling to gain access to the online tools that would help them organize and stay safe. As protesters continue to swell the ranks [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris, Emily Rauhala, Rick Noack and Matt Viser MITTENWALD, Germany - Leaders from the Group of Seven wealthiest democracies said they would 'urgently' explore price caps on Russian [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor In a pivotal week of European summitry, two of the West's major geopolitical blocs are focusing on what they were built to do: hedge against the Kremlin. [...]

Byline: Emily Rauhala and Quentin Ariès BRUSSELS - The European Union is close to a deal on phasing out Russian oil imports in response to the war in Ukraine - [...]

Byline: Karla Adam and Cindy Boren LONDON - Britain on Thursday froze the assets of seven prominent Russian business executives, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich, rapidly shedding its [...]

Byline: Robyn Dixon, Rachel Pannett, Ellen Francis and John Wagner President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced new sanctions on Russia after its moves against Ukraine, saying the actions amounted to [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung and Anne Gearan WASHINGTON - The Biden administration announced Friday that it will impose further sanctions on elements of the Cuban government over the crackdown on pro-democracy [...]

Byline: Sammy Westfall There was the $38 million private jet. And the $100 million mansion in Paris. There were the Ferraris, Bentleys and Aston Martins. And the paintings by Renoir [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam keeps 'piles of cash' at home and is unable to open a bank account after being targeted by U.S. sanctions, according [...]

Byline: Min Joo Kim SEOUL - North Korea fired two projectiles Thursday, using the start of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States to telegraph its frustration over Washington's refusal [...]

Byline: Carol Morello On the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, the Trump administration imposed new sanctions Monday on the core inner circle of advisers to Iranian [...]

Byline: Carol Morello On the anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran, the Trump administration slapped new sanctions Monday on the core inner circle of advisers to Iran's Supreme [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick and Sudarsan Raghavan Internal Egyptian government documents show officials in Cairo scrambling to do damage control after U.S. spy agencies uncovered an alleged scheme to smuggle North [...]

Byline: Siobhán O'Grady When President Donald Trump pulled U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria last week, leaving U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters to fend for themselves against a looming Turkish offensive, he [...]

Byline: Liz Sly BEIRUT - A Gibraltar court rejected a U.S. attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker on Sunday, clearing the way for the ship to resume its journey [...]

Byline: Liz Sly BEIRUT - A U.S. attempt to seize an Iranian oil tanker was rejected by a Gibraltar court on Sunday, paving the way for the ship to resume [...]

Byline: Liz Sly BEIRUT - The global standoff between the United States and Iran over shipping escalated Saturday after the United States issued a warrant for the seizure of an [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham and Adam Taylor ISTANBUL - The government of Gibraltar has released an Iranian supertanker detained since July on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions, just hours after [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin After an internal policy battle, the Trump administration is set to announce later this week that it will once again waive five different nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian and Kayla Epstein WASHINGTON - The Senate on Monday did not override President Donald Trump's veto of three measures to block arms deals benefiting Saudi Arabia and [...]

Byline: Ishaan Tharoor President Donald Trump and his adversaries in Iran are inching closer and closer to the brink. Both sides insist they don't want war, but a series of [...]

Byline: Michael Morell Much discussion has occurred about a possible freeze of North Korea's strategic weapons programs. Is it part of the Trump administration's strategy in the hopefully soon-to-be-resumed talks [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham DUBAI - Britain will work for the release of an Iranian supertanker seized by its territory Gibraltar if Iran guarantees the ship will not travel to Syria [...]

Byline: Josh Rogin For roughly two years, the United States has been warning the Turkish government against receiving a huge Russian missile defense system. Washington has made clear that, were [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung WASHINGTON - The visiting emir of Qatar, who met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, did not renew an earlier offer to mediate between the United States [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris and Michael Birnbaum MANAMA, Bahrain - Iran said Monday that it has exceeded the stockpile limit for low-enriched uranium allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran [...]

Byline: Jason Rezaian On Monday, President Donald Trump imposed new sanctions on Iran that targeted the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and related entities. It's just the latest punitive [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday levied sanctions against two foreign-owned companies and one tanker involved in the regular shipment of Venezuelan oil to Cuba, the [...]

Byline: Jeanne WhalenWASHINGTON - Republican senators on Wednesday successfully defended the Trump administration's plan to lift sanctions on companies controlled by a Vladimir Putin ally - despite the defection of [...]

Byline: Joanna Slater NEW DELHI - When the United States enacted a series of sanctions in retaliation for Russia's alleged interference in American elections, the goal was to punish an [...]

Byline: Carol Morello Iran plans to get around U.S. sanctions on its oil sales by selling its petroleum and conduct international trade in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the [...]

Byline: Anne Gearan and Ellen Nakashima WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Thursday took its strongest action to date to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election, imposing fresh [...]

This appeared in Friday's Washington Post. - - - For a presidency marked by reticence to criticize Russia, Thursday offered a change of tone. The White House signed on to [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russian government hackers and spy agencies to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, [...]

Byline: Karoun Demirjian Senators have struck a deal to put a comprehensive Russia sanctions bill on the floor this week, according to those negotiating the legislation. The measure, which will [...]

Byline: Carol Morello Sanctions against Iran were officially extended for another decade Thursday, even though President Barack Obama did not sign the legislation, a symbolic move intended to show the [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima EMBARGOED UNTIL 12 A.M. WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will sign an executive order establishing the first sanctions program to allow the administration to [...]

Byline: Daniel W. Drezner Sanctions are so hot right now. Assistant Treasury Secretary Danny Glaser recently bragged to Newsweek that Treasury is 'at the center of our national security.' Financial [...]

Byline: Brian Fung A federal court has sided with entrepreneur Elon Musk in his bid to challenge top competitors in the space business, blocking aerospace partners Boeing and Lockheed Martin [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Stephen Hayes, writing on the Weekly Standard website, points to a report that in Afghanistan coalition forces 'arrested a member of Iran's notorious Qods Force who was [...]