342 articles in the World News category.
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that the United States will roll out new secondary sanctions against Iran on a weekly basis, starting with banks, and told the Associated Press the campaign will amount to “financial violence if we have to.” The comments came in...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. forces struck two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launchers on Iran’s Larak Island on Sunday after Central Command said Guard units were preparing to fire rockets loaded with sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. It was the first publicly acknowledged American strike on...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosts G20 finance ministers and central bank governors Monday and Tuesday in Asheville, North Carolina, the first major gathering of the group under U.S. chairmanship after Washington largely sat out last year’s South Africa-led process. A senior...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department and FBI announced Wednesday they seized internet domains used by two complementary hacking platforms that prosecutors say were built and operated by a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group and used against U.S. government networks, including...
By Tommy Flynn
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday aboard a U.S. military C-17 for talks with Russian intelligence officials, the first known visit by a sitting CIA director since William Burns met Vladimir Putin in November 2021. The trip was not announced in advance....
By Tommy Flynn
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday formally rescinded Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, ending a listing that had stood since December 1979. The same announcement delisted Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, also known as the Nusrah Front, as a Specially Designated...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy has removed or detonated all mines in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and warned Tehran that any vessel caught laying new ones will be destroyed. “I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday the formal start of Operation Economic Outcast, describing it as an unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining revenue lifeline sustaining the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Speaking at the...
By Tommy Flynn
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf delivered an unusually blunt assessment of his country’s economic crisis, declaring that military strength alone cannot sustain the Islamic Republic if its people go hungry, as the Trump administration’s intensified sanctions...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference Monday to outline the details of President Donald Trump’s planned “Economic D-Day” campaign against Iran, an effort the administration describes as the most coordinated economic isolation in history aimed at...
By Tommy Flynn
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions on Tuesday against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and senior trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye, citing their direct involvement in the court’s efforts to investigate and prosecute officials from governments that...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he intends to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before the end of the year, signaling a renewed push for high-level personal diplomacy with Pyongyang after years of limited engagement. Speaking to reporters during a tour of a...