Alex Raufoglu is RFE/RL's senior correspondent in Washington, D.C.
The US Congress on September 16 passed sweeping legislation targeting Russia and Iran, sending to President Donald Trump a sanctions package supporters say will increase pressure on Moscow and countries that help finance its war against Ukraine.
sweeping Russia sanctions bill championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham cleared a key procedural hurdle in the US House of Representatives on September 15, setting up a final vote on legislation that supporters say would increase pressure on Moscow and strengthen US support for Ukraine.
Ukrainian skeleton racer and Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych is urging US lawmakers and the State Department to deny visas to Russian athletes who seek to compete under the Russian flag at the 2028 Olympic Games in LA, arguing that Moscow has turned sport into an instrument of war propaganda.
The US House Rules Committee has advanced legislation imposing tougher sanctions on Russia and Iran, clearing a key procedural hurdle for a possible House vote later this week but exposing deep Democratic concerns over the measure’s expansion of presidential tariff authority.
The US House of Representatives could take up a sweeping Russia and Iran sanctions bill as soon as September 15, Republican Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina told RFE/RL.
The US House of Representatives is preparing to take up legislation next week that is intended to impose tougher economic pressure on Russia, setting up what could be a heated fight between Republicans and Democrats over how far Congress should go in expanding President Donald Trump's tariff powers.
The recent US destruction of five Iranian oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz has exposed more than the widening confrontation between Washington and Tehran.
US Congressman Abraham Hamadeh says the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process is moving faster than many expected and predicts that a final peace agreement could be reached well before the end of President Donald Trump’s current term.
The work of a Yale University lab that tracks Ukrainian children forcibly transferred to Russia is at risk of curtailment as the US State Department moves to restructure a $25 million program that the Yale lab was among the organizations competing for.
The United States has imposed sanctions on all of Iran's remaining active airlines, sharply escalating pressure on Tehran's aviation sector as part of a broader campaign aimed at cutting the Islamic republic off from international trade and finance.
The Trump administration has revived its diplomatic drive to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled from Moscow to Kyiv in a high-profile effort to lay the groundwork for another round of negotiations.
The United States has imposed sanctions on a Turkish investment bank and two subsidiaries, accusing them of helping Iran move oil revenue and providing access to the international financial system as Washington intensifies its campaign to squeeze Tehran.
Ukraine’s top sanctions official says he remains optimistic about prospects for a sweeping Russia sanctions bill in the US Congress despite growing uncertainty over when the House will take it up, as lawmakers face a sharply shortened legislative calendar ahead of the November elections.
WASHINGTON -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that Washington and Kyiv are negotiating a license that could allow Ukraine to produce missiles for the US-made Patriot air-defense system, reviving an idea that President Donald Trump appeared to downplay only weeks ago.
A US House hearing examined the Houthis' growing ties with Russia and China and how they could strengthen the Iran-backed militant group's threat to US interests and Red Sea shipping.
How serious does intelligence have to be for a CIA director to personally travel to Moscow to deliver a warning?
Ukraine's top sanctions official arrived in Washington on August 31 seeking to keep alive a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that cleared the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support but now faces a tougher test in the House of Representatives.
US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz after the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the vital waterway, a US official confirmed to RFE/RL.
The US said it was aware of threats by Iran's armed forces to put Persian-language media outlets including RFE/RL's Radio Farda on a list of potential military targets, and pointed to what it said was Tehran's record of harassment and attempted attacks against journalists and dissidents abroad.
Six months after US-Israeli strikes, the Iran conflict remains unresolved. Despite military losses, Iran retains leverage over the Strait of Hormuz. Experts say key questions involve economic pressure, diplomacy, shipping, and support from Russia and China.
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