Oil Sanctions ‘Starving Putin’s War Machine’: Treasury Department

This photograph shows the Lukoil logo on a fuel storage tank at Rosenets Port terminal on the Black Sea coast near the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, on Nov. 14, 2025. Nikolay Doychinov/AFP WASHINGTON—Sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump in October against two Russian oil companies are “having their intended effect” on the country’s oil

Trump says MBS “knew nothing” about journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

Washington — President Trump said Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, “knew nothing” about the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, despite a 2021 intelligence report finding bin Salman ordered the killing. “You’re mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial,” Mr. Trump said about Khashoggi in response to a question from