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The Government Accountability Office has launched an inquiry into the effects of banks’ increasing efforts to close high-risk accounts, including those held by money-transfer firms and humanitarian organizations.
The Obama administration is preparing to give Iran limited access to U.S. dollars as part of looser sanctions on Tehran, according to congressional staff members and a former American official briefed on the plans.
In life you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate—or so we’ve read in airline magazines. But if you’re an Iranian mullah and you’re dealing with the Obama Administration, you can get more than you negotiated, and what you never deserved.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Wednesday against the overuse of financial sanctions against other nations and said the United States must be prepared to ease the penalties over time if they succeed in changing behavior.
A money-laundering ring that recycled illicit proceeds worth at least €5 million ($5.7 million) in Germany for heroin dealers across Europe has been dismantled after an international police operation, authorities said on Thursday, highlighting the country’s appeal as a place to cleanse ill-gotten gains.
Before he drives the beat-up taxi into North Korea, Mr. Qin does two things. He packs a bribe, often something as simple as fresh apples or bananas, or sometimes as much as $200. And he snips the car’s radio wires.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia, whose relationship has struggled during the Obama administration because of differences over Iran, are nonetheless putting up a united front when it comes to sanctioning terrorist networks.
The carry-on bags in the luggage bin above seat 7G on a recent U.S. flight to Dubai contained thousands of bills—$20s, $50s and $100s, all neatly wrapped in rubber bands and plastic.
Syrian government forces, helped by Russian airstrikes, retook Palmyra from the Islamic State on March 27, and experts are now assessing damage to the city’s ancient monuments and artifacts. The Islamic State destroyed many archaeological sites as it expanded across Iraq and Syria, looting some for profit and damaging others to gain attention.
America’s war in Afghanistan, which is now in its fifteenth year, presents a mystery: how could so much money, power, and good will have achieved so little?