The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (“DDTC”) imposed an arms embargo today on Eritrea. The embargo is the direct result of a State Department determination, made on May 14 under section 40A of the Arms Export Control Act, 22 U.S.C.…
A federal district court in Washington, D.C., issued an opinion* last Friday awarding significant compensatory and punitive damages in a law suit against Syria brought by relatives of Jack Armstrong and Jack Hensley. Armstrong and Hensley were two U.S. civilian…
A court in Bangkok this week denied a U.S. request to extradite Jamshid Ghassemi, an Iranian national. Ghassemi had been indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego in 2006 in connection with an alleged attempt by Ghassemi to…
. . . the United Arab Emirates. With the publication today by the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) of the additions to the Entity List announced on Wednesday, the UAE moves into first place in terms of the single…
The defense trade cooperation treaties signed by the United States with the United Kingdom and Australia may have just become victims of election year politics. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee announced today, according to this report in Defense News, that…