The United States issued sanctions on Wednesday to target Iranian efforts to domestically manufacture components for ballistic missiles, the U.S. Treasury Department said.The sanctions target six individuals and 12 entities for what the Treasury Department said was "their involvement in efforts to help the Iranian regime domestically source the manufacturing of critical materials needed for Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh made a call to global investors on Wednesday to come do business with Syria after U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he would lift all of Washington's sanctions on the country.

President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia marks a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

A federal judge in Washington has thrown out a Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit against a U.S.-Canadian trading firm after finding that the U.S. agency acted in bad faith and made false statements,

Syrians took to the streets in cities across the country to celebrate following U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he will ease sanctions and move to normalize relations with the new government to give the country “a chance at peace.

China will suspend export controls and sanctions called the unreliable entity list over US entities, which were announced in April, as part of the trade agreements made by the world’s two biggest economies.

When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision, which will boost a country devastated by 13 years of war, took many in the region by surprise.

The talks in Istanbul complicated a European push for the U.S. to pressure Russia an into a ceasefire in Ukraine, even as questions persist on who is attending.