US officials entered the surging conflict between Israel and Lebanon Monday, imposing sanctions on a Lebanese bank linked to Hezbollah./ It came as Israel identified what it said were the leaders of an Iran-backed Hezbollah tech project which has prompted a series of air strikes./ Tensions in ...
Fighters with the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah party parade in a suburb of Beirut in May 2019 (AFP Photo/Anwar AMRO)/ Washington (AFP) - The United States on Thursday announced sanctions in Lebanon and Oman aimed at shutting down financing to the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah and the Palestinian ...
The U.S. designated Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank a "global " Thursday over its ties to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group, one day after it slapped sanctions on networks it claimed facilitated "tens of millions of dollars' worth" of activities that benefited Iran’s military and regime./ ...
Lebanon’s central bank said it would guarantee all “legitimate deposits” in the newly sanctioned Jammal Trust Bank, which on Friday rejected U.S. allegations that it helps to fund Iran-backed Hezbollah./ FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks following a meeting of the UN ...
WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department on Thursday targeted a Lebanese bank the Trump administration calls the “bank of choice” of Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, as part of a maximum pressure campaign against Tehran. The U.S., in partnership with Oman, also announced sanctions against four ...
17PM [Updated: Fri Aug 30, 2019 04:18PM ]/ People walk past a branch of Jammal Trust Bank in the Beirut's Hamra street on August 30, 2019, in the Lebanese capital. (Photo by AFP)/ The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on a Lebanon-based bank and its subsidiaries ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...
Donald Trump CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images/ This is the second week of former president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in Manhattan for allegedly engaging in a hush-money scheme to conceal his sexual encounter with adult film actress . (Legal scholar Norman Eisen has more ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...