(VOVWORLD) - A UN sanctions committee against the Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaida warned on Monday that ISIS is evolving into a global network while al-Qaida may grow stronger...
(VOVWORLD) - Concerns about a new conflict in the Middle East have increased following the Pentagon’s deployment of an aircraft carrier and a bomber wing in the Arabian Gulf to...
(VOVWORLD) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed confidence Monday that continued sanctions will help achieve North Korea's denuclearization
(VOVWORLD) - Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that it will coordinate with other oil producing countries to ensure an adequate crude oil supply following the US decision to revoke Iran sanction...
(VOVWORLD) - EU foreign ministers on Monday decided to prolong sanctions against Iran until next year due to its violation of human rights
(VOVWORLD) - The US on Tuesday imposed new sanctions on Venezuela’s Minerven state gold mining company and its president, Adrian Perdomo. The company’s property and assets in the US...
(VOVWORLD) - The United States wants a deal with North Korea on a "big picture" roadmap to get rid of its nuclear and missile programs, said South Korean Foreign Minister Kang...
(VOVWORLD) - The United States, in coordination with Canada and the European Union, has slapped new sanctions on more than a dozen of Russian officials and businesses in response to...
(VOVWORLD) - The US Treasury Department has sanctioned a Moscow-based bank owned jointly by Russian and Venezuelan state companies for evading US restrictions aimed at putting economic pressure on...
(VOVWORLD) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday described US sanctions imposed on Iran as an “economic war” and said an economic war is more brutal than a military war
(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations Security Council has agreed to exempt this week’s groundbreaking ceremony for inter-Korean road and railway projects from sanctions, reports said Tuesday, in another sign...
(VOVWORLD) - The European Union formally agreed on Friday to prolong its economic sanctions against Russia by six months until July 2019, the European Council said
(VOVWORLD) - The United States has granted Iraq a 90-day extension of an exemption from sanctions re-imposed on neighboring Iran in order to keep importing electricity and natural gas...
(VOVWORLD) - North Korea said on Sunday that increasing pressure and sanctions to force Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons will be Washington’s greatest mistake, and will “block the path to...
(VOVWORLD) - The US can help break the deadlock in negotiations with North Korea on denuclearization without lifting the sanctions if Washington allows humanitarian organizations to work in North Korea, suugested...
(VOVWORLD) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday said that Iran will continue to export oil, despite recently imposed US sanctions
(VOVWORLD) - New US sanctions are leaving Washington isolated, said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday
(VOVWORLD) - Russia and China are engaged in talks over the establishment of a cross-border payment system which would use their national currencies, Russia’s First Deputy Chief of Staff...
(VOVWORLD) - The United States is reimposing punitive measures targeting the Iranian oil and financial sectors in what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called "the toughest sanctions ever placed" against...
(VOVWORLD) -The EU effort to save the Iran nuclear accord by building a mechanism to buy Iran’s oil despite reimposition of US sanctions has run into difficulty