The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday indicted Turkey’s second-largest bank on charges of fraud and money laundering, accusing it of helping Iran evade sanctions implemented to curb its nuclear program. Halbank was reportedly involved in the largest Iran sanctions violation to date, sending ...
The charges against Halkbank were announced as President Trump, having allowed Turkish-backed forces to invade Syria, is looking to take a tougher stand against Turkey./ WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Tuesday sharply escalated economic pressure on Turkey by filing fraud and ...
Tuesday with participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade/ Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said senior bank officials at the state-owned bank helped to move billions of dollars of Iranian oil revenue illegally./ Prosecutors said that between 2012 and 2016, Halkbank helped run a ...
This file photo taken on December 17, 2013 shows businessman Reza Zarrab surrounded by journalists as he arrives at a police center in Istanbul. Zarrab arrested on March 19, 2016 in the United States on charges of conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran./ Federal prosecutors in New York ...
NEW YORK — The United States criminally charged a major Turkish bank with helping to evade sanctions against Iran, potentially raising diplomatic tensions as the U.S. tries to contain Turkey’s military offensive in Syria./ The charges against Halkbank, a state-owned bank, were announced Tuesday, ...
Iranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January/ "My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests." For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this month was unlike ...
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Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas of India Hardeep Singh Puri speaks during the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 16, 2024. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo/ NEW DELHI, Jan 23 (Reuters) - India can leverage its growing energy demand to negotiate ...
Senior international investigations correspondent, Yemen/ One of the sites had several shipping containers with little ventilation, where detainees said up to 60 men were held/ The BBC has been given access to detention facilities on former United Arab Emirates military bases in Yemen, ...
Syrian government forces advanced rapidly into north-eastern Syria in recent days/ President Ahmed al-Sharaa has made significant advances in his efforts to unify a deeply fractured Syria, reclaiming large swathes of territory in the north-east that had been under the control of a Kurdish-led ...
Israeli authorities have ordered the football club to take the pitch apart, or they'll demolish it/ A Palestinian children's football club in the occupied West Bank faces imminent demolition despite an international campaign to save it. Its supporters say it provides a rare sporting opportunity ...
Sharaa said the deal would allow Syrian state institutions to reassert control over most areas/ The Syrian government has announced an immediate nationwide ceasefire with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), taking almost full control of the country, Syrian state media says. The ...
The Syrian army is moving into areas east of Aleppo city, after Kurdish forces started a withdrawal. Syrian troops have been spotted entering Deir Hafer, a town about 50km (30 miles) from Aleppo. On Friday, the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia announced it would redeploy east of ...
'The Islamic Republic will fall', says exiled crown prince/ The exiled son of the last Iranian shah (king) has called on the world to help protesters topple Iran's government, saying he is confident "the Islamic Republic will fall - not if, but when". Reza Pahlavi, a US-based opposition leader, ...
The Gaza Strip remains devastated after two years of war/ On the face of it, the announcement of phase two of President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza would seem like progress. But there remains a huge lack of clarity and detail about the future of the strip and the 2.1 million Palestinians ...