House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) threw his support behind renewed congressional efforts to sanction the Kremlin over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine.

But fully ending sanctions—and their effects—is not easy. The Trump administration has a tough road ahead if it intends to make good on the president’s promise.

ABU DHABI, 2nd June 2025 (WAM) -- The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) imposed a financial sanction on an exchange house, pursuant to Article (14) of the Federal Decree Law No. (20) of 2018 on Anti ...

The European Union has just imposed a new package of sanctions against Russia—now the seventeenth. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. and EU had already imposed ...

Lagos State House of Assembly has said it would sanction Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) that underperformed in their 2024 budget appropriation. The Chairman of Economic Planning and ...

The EU on Wednesday imposed sanctions on three Syrian militia groups and two of their leaders over human rights abuses committed against members of Syria's Alawite minority during a round of ...

President Donald Trump said he’s holding off on new sanctions against Russia in order to preserve the chance for a deal with President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

“Today, we took the decision to lift our economic sanctions on Syria,” the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas posted on X after a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers in Brussels.

President Trump announced this week he will drop sanctions on Syria — surprising some senior U.S. sanctions officials, sources tell CBS News.

Additional sanctions were imposed over the past 14 years in response to the Assad regime’s brutal crackdown on his own people during an anti-government uprising that began in 2011.

UN Watch is calling on Secretary of State Marco Rubio to sanction and deny entry and visa access to UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has been accused of making antisemitic statements.

The Chairman of Sparklight Construction Company, Toyin Adeyinka, has called for greater empowerment of regulatory bodies in the engineering sector to effectively sanction errant professionals and ...