by ATFL | Nov 17, 2025 | USG Updates
❝ Ambassador Michel Issa presented his credentials on the 17th of November 2025 to officially become the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon. Ambassador Issa previously served as President & CEO of Newton Investment Group LLC, in Newton, New...
by ATFL | Nov 13, 2025 | USG Updates
❝ Two senior US lawmakers have called on the Trump administration to prepare sanctions against Lebanon’s parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, if he blocks progress on the country’s scheduled parliamentary elections. Lebanon is set to hold elections for all 128...
by ATFL | Nov 10, 2025 | USG Updates
❝ A high-ranking U.S. Treasury official said during a visit to Beirut Monday that Washington is pushing Lebanese officials to crack down on the flow of funding to Hezbollah before next year’s parliamentary elections and to prosecute people involved in a quasi-bank...
by ATFL | Nov 6, 2025 | USG Updates
❝ Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is taking action to support the disarmament of Hizballah by sanctioning individuals who facilitated funneling tens of millions of dollars from Iran to Hizballah in 2025, using...
by ATFL | Oct 2, 2025 | USG Updates
❝ U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration approved $230 million for Lebanon’s security forces this week as they push to disarm the once powerful armed group Hezbollah, sources in Washington and Beirut said. A Lebanese source familiar with the decision...
