The United States is set seize control of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper that prosecutors claim is secretly owned by Iran, the Justice Department said Tuesday, though the ruling is to be appealed. The seizure and sale of the 36-story building, in the heart of ...

North Korea tried to export gas masks to Syria but they were seized in Turkey along with arms and ammunition, Japanese media said Tuesday, as the United States threatened action over an alleged chemical weapons attack. A Libyan-registered vessel, identified as Al En Ti ...

Sony Corp. said it sold almost $13 million (¥1.3 billion) in video and medical equipment to dealers in Dubai who resold it in Iran, including to groups under official U.S. sanctions. In a U.S. filing Thursday, Sony said it sold broadcast equipment, security cameras ...

One reason Beijing is loath to squeeze Pyongyang is that a nuclear North Korea is seen as complicating U.S. security calculations more than China's.

The government plans to ban financial institutions from doing business with North Korea’s Foreign Trade Bank, working closely with the United States to punish the hermit nation over its nuclear weapons program, official sources said Tuesday. Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry officials separately conveyed ...

The United States said it is renewing exemptions for Japan and some EU countries from the tough sanctions Washington imposed on nations buying oil from Iran. A total of 20 countries have “continued to significantly reduce the volume of their crude oil purchases from ...

The United States and China on Thursday were set to tighten the U.N. sanctions screws on North Korea after its nuclear bomb test last month. After weeks of closed-door talks, the U.N. Security Council was scheduled to vote later in the day on a ...