A CIA Drone Strike, an Arrest and a Woman’s 3-Year Vigil to Free Husband from Afghanistan The detention of Mahmood Habibi, 37, has strained the already-fraught relationship between the U.S. and the Taliban, four...
Book Review: 'The Mission' Reveals Troubling Political Meddling in CIA After 9/11 The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in...
CIA Chief Told Lawmakers Iran Nuclear Program Set Back Years with Strikes on Metal Conversion Site CIA Director John Ratcliffe told skeptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran's lone metal...
The Fatal Cost of Twisting Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's firing of top intelligence analysts sets a very bad precedent.
'Billion Dollar Spy' Is the Real Story of the Only Russian Agent Whose Portrait Hangs in CIA Headquarters The upcoming film, based on a book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author David E. Hoffman, stars Russell Crowe, Tony Goldwyn...
The Only Al-Qaida Operative to Infiltrate the Army's Special Forces One might think that betraying both the world's most notorious terrorism group and the West's most well-funded intelligence...
Senators Overseeing the Military Request an Investigation at the Pentagon into Use of the Signal App The senators' assertion that classified information was potentially shared was notable, especially after Trump's Republican...
Hegseth, Top Officials Violated 'Basic Operational Security' with Signal Chat on Yemen War Plans Experts who spoke with Military.com said it's highly unlikely that operational details at the level Goldberg described would...
The Release of a 1961 Plan to Break Up the CIA Revives an Old Conspiracy Theory About Who Killed JFK Special Assistant Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s memo ends with a previously redacted page that spells out a proposal to give...
Gabbard, Dogged by Syria Visit and Echoing Russian Disinfo, Approved to Take Helm of Intelligence Agencies The Senate voted 52-48 to confirm Gabbard to the job of director of national intelligence, giving her the responsibility of...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...