Russia's leading tanker group, Sovcomflot, posted a net loss of $393 million in the first quarter of 2025, Reuters reports. The decline was caused by new Western sanctions, which led to operational problems,

These sanctions are expected to go into effect upon publication in the Federal Register, anticipated on or around June 6, 2025.

Britain’s Labour Party government is quietly separating parts of its diplomacy, along with trade and security policies, from the Trump administration.

Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off from tightening sanctions.

The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country.

The United States has imposed sanctions on two members of the Mexican drug trafficking organization Cartel del Noreste, the Northeast Cartel, which was formerly known as Los Zetas

Starting in May 2004, the United States has issued eight executive orders targeting Syria with sanctions for various reasons. In August 2011, in response to Syria’s escalating civil war ...

The European Union has now targeted Moscow’s fleet of covert oil tankers and plans more restrictions, as the Trump administration’s approach to the war shifts.