Sanctions

As a potential armed conflict looms, one expert takes a look at the sanctions that have been most devastating to innocent civilians.

Among the charges: lying to banks, violating sanctions, and dismembering a T-Mobile robot.

The new sanctions are the toughest U.S. action so far in response to Myanmar's ongoing human rights abuses.

The current administration has made heavy-handed economic policy one of its main tools for influencing global politics.

Amid ongoing tumult and the largest mass migration in Latin American history, Sunday's presidential election provided no relief.

An expert in U.S.-Iran relations argues the U.S. pullout from the nuclear agreement gives Iran's government a convenient scapegoat.

North Korea and China actually share the same end game: Compel the U.S. to abandon its defense of South Korea.

Even after the nation's recent nuclear test, international powers appear at odds over whether sanctions are an effective deterrent.

President Nicolás Maduro is building his brand of populism by celebrating each time the U.S. punishes officials for abuses.

The move forces the president's hand on a politically sensitive issue.

Sanctions allegedly killed hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq and provided a rationale for invasion, a line still heard today. But those deaths almost certainly never happened.

Despite a medical loophole, U.S. sanctions designed to limit the country's nuclear program are crippling hospitals.

Burma's gradual return to international good grace is probably more a case of homegrown changes than a result of economic sanctions, argues one influential analyst.