US agency designates three Hezbollah-linked financial facilitators
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated three Hezbollah-linked financial facilitators and their Lebanon-based travel company. Specifically, OFAC designated Adel Diab, Ali Mohamad Daoun, Jihad Salem Alame, and their company, Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism. This action comes at a time in...
Lebanon crisis among world’s worst since 1850s: World Bank
Lebanon's economy will shrink by nearly 10 percent in 2021 Meltdown blamed on corruption and mismanagement by the ruling elite Lebanon’s economic collapse is likely to rank among the world’s worst financial crises since the mid-19th century, the World Bank said in a damning report released Tuesday. The report predicts...
