Tag: U.S. Economic Sanctions

Satellite imagery often yields intriguing findings. After Israel’s surprise attack against Iran on June 13, Iranian oil firms rushed to export as much oil as possible—lifting the country’s output to ...

Despite plenty of threats and ominous social media posts, the Trump administration has not taken an aggressive stance on sanctioning Russia yet. It has been more than three years into Russia’s ...

The Trump administration has scrapped its predecessor’s sweeping export controls for advanced artificial intelligence chips, known as the AI diffusion rule. “To win the AI race, the Biden AI diffusion ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to end sanctions on Syria is welcome news. When the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad fell in December, the country was one of the most heavily ...

In January 2021, the U.S. government declared that China was committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The U.K. Parliament and the French National Assembly soon followed ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the latest in the Ukraine-Russia war, Israeli airstrikes on Yemen, and the ASEAN-GCC-China summit in Malaysia. “We’re Going to Find Out” ...

Although U.S. President Donald Trump suggested last week that a nuclear deal with Iran was “close,” that doesn’t actually seem to be the case as both sides are digging in ...

For a brief moment, it seemed as though U.S. President Donald Trump were finally willing to get tough on Russia. In an April 26 post on his Truth Social platform, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East priorities, the fragile cease-fire between India and Pakistan, and voting allegations surrounding Albania’s parliamentary election. ...

U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his three-day Persian Gulf tour in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday with a sweeping foreign-policy address that heralded an optimistic future for the Middle East. ...