The Trump administration has accused Gustavo Petro of enabling drug cartels and placed him on the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list.

The U.S. has lifted sanctions against separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik. The sanctions were imposed in 2022 by the Biden administration, which accused him of corruption and threatening to destabilize the region through his separatist activities.

The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on a kleptocratic ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was removed this month as president of the Serb territory within Bosnia and Herzegovina for chipping away at the US-brokered peace deal that ended bloody ethnic violence in the Balkans in the 1990s.

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sweeping sanctions on members of an alleged human smuggling network based in Mexico that it says trafficked people from four continents using yachts, hotels and cartel connections.

The Caesar Act imposed wide-ranging sanctions on Syria targeting individuals, companies, and institutions linked to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A US State Department spokesperson said the Trump administration supports repealing the Caesar Act sanctions on Syria through the National Defense Authorization Act,

John Hurley, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, will travel in the coming days to Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Lebanon The US Treasury Department's top sanctions official will travel to the Middle East and Europe on Friday,

Days after canceling a planned summit with Putin, citing a lack of progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, Trump took a major step by effectively blacklisting Rosneft and Lukoil.

A federal judge referenced comments made by Attorney General Pam Bondi Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem related to Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case.