by Natalie Escobar | Jan 27, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON—Democratic countries’ inability to deal with the fallout from the Syrian civil war, including the “unprecedented numbers” of refugees and rise of terrorist groups like the Islamic State, has contributed to a decade-long decline in global freedom, according...
by Tyler Kendall | Jan 26, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – In a symbolic gesture to show the world how close it is to destruction, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday “with utter dismay” that its Doomsday Clock will remain at three minutes to midnight. “This is a metaphor for how close we are...
by Isabella Gutierrez | Jan 20, 2016 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON – Even though the Islamic State has suffered territorial losses in recent months, Americans should not have false hopes that the terrorist threat in the United States is diminished. In fact, the opposite may be true, a Princeton scholar said Wednesday....
by Celena Chong | Jan 20, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — U.S. and coalition forces launched the most recent of 14 airstrikes two days ago as part of a year-long campaign to weaken and target Islamic State terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steven Warren said Wednesday. Troops in...
by Celena Chong | Jan 19, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The United States needs to contain an increasingly assertive North Korea and look to China along with other countries in the Asia-Pacific region for support in negotiations with the unpredictable communist country, former Secretary of Defense...
by Julia Jacobs | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Hours after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were released from Iranian detainment, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi pointed Wednesday to diplomatic gains made during last summer’s nuclear negotiations as an explanation for the problem’s quick fix. Pelosi...
by Natalie Escobar | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A senior White House official wanted to talk about the Obama administration’s foreign policy priorities Wednesday but instead spent most of his news conference responding to reporters’ questions about Iran’s detention of two U.S. Navy patrol boats,...
by Erin Bacon | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON- Rep. Mac Thornberry, chairman of the House Armed Services committee, said Wednesday he would support a congressional authorization for the use of military force against ISIS, a step requested by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address....
by Isabella Gutierrez | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON– U.S. foreign policy this year will focus on the refugee crisis and violent extremism in Syria, and the Islamic State “will be defeated,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech at the National Defense University Wednesday. The changing nature...
by Celena Chong and Jack Corrigan | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday to determine whether $1.75 billion in Iranian assets frozen in a U.S. bank will remain in Iran’s possession or go to families of victims killed in the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon and the 1996...
by Jacob Meschke | Jan 13, 2016 | National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — In response to an apparent fourth nuclear test by North Korea, a House panel debated Wednesday possible solutions to the threat to national security posed by the isolated communist country. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the...
by Jack Corrigan | Jan 11, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON — In an attempt to further stifle North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s nuclear ambitions, the U.S. House introduced a bill on Monday that would apply new financial sanctions to North Korea and call for stricter enforcement of existing sanctions. Though...
