The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four firms in Venezuela's oil sector and designated four additional oil tankers as blocked property.

On Oct. 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Rosneft Oil Co. and Lukoil OAO, two of Russia's largest oil companies. The designations were made pursuant to Executive Order No.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani had once called for lifting US sanctions on Venezuela and blamed them for contributing to the local migrant crisis.

Venezuela's oil production outlook this year will depend on how U.S. sanctions policy evolves, Goldman Sachs analysts said, after U.S. President Donald Trump deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

President Trump’s retaliation against top officials at the International Criminal Court has shut them out of American services and made even routine daily tasks a challenge.

The US government has lifted sanctions on three people who it previously accused of aiding in the proliferation of “Predator” spyware, a sophisticated surveillance technology that’s allegedly been used against Americans.

The United States on Tuesday imposed new sanctions on entities in Iran and Russia accusing them of aiming to stoke “socio-political tensions” and attempting to influence the 2024 U.S. election. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said Tuesday ...

The Treasury Department on Tuesday slapped new sanctions on 10 people and entities in Venezuela and Iran accused of helping fuel Tehran’s drone and missile programs — including a Venezuelan firm

The Treasury Department said the measures back reimposed United Nations sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program, which Iran insists is peaceful.

NIS , Serbia's Russian-owned oil company, said on Friday that it had imported the first shipments of crude oil needed to restart the country's sole refinery after securing a U.S. sanctions waiver.