National Security

President Donald Trump struck a sweeping agreement with Denmark and Greenland this week that grants the United States permanent military access, basing, and overflight rights on the strategically vital Arctic island, a deal the administration says costs American taxpayers nothing and locks adversaries like China and Russia out of the region for good. The agreement, […]

Italian Eurofighter jets operating under NATO command shot down an unidentified drone over Lithuanian airspace after it crossed in from Belarus overnight into Tuesday, marking the first time allied fighters have intercepted and destroyed a drone over the Baltic nation. The aircraft flew for roughly 30 minutes, passed close to the capital city of Vilnius, […]

The Israeli military detonated 1,100 tons of explosives beneath a ridge in southern Lebanon on Thursday, collapsing a sprawling Hezbollah underground complex that Israeli officials say took more than two decades to build with Iranian money. The blast was so powerful the U.S. Geological Survey registered it as a magnitude 4.1 earthquake, with tremors felt […]

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Thomas Weir Pauken II to two years in prison on Tuesday for acting as an agent of China’s Ministry of State Security inside the United States, capping a case that stretches back seven years and involves cash payments, burner phones, a $10,000 bribe attempt, and an effort to […]

A Washington-based nuclear research institute says it has identified a partially underground, fortified building at Iran’s Natanz nuclear compound that appears to have survived every round of American and Israeli military strikes, and may have been designed to store the raw material for large-scale uranium enrichment. The Institute for Science and International Security, known as […]

The FBI and Department of Justice seized three internet domains this week that powered a Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation responsible for stealing sensitive data from more than 300 organizations, including NASA, the Justice Department itself, the Federal Reserve, three Department of Energy national laboratories, and the National Institutes of Health, newly unsealed court records reveal. […]

A twin-engine Cessna 441 charter plane crashed near a remote military radar installation in southwestern Alaska on Thursday, killing all eight people on board, including two U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees and six other civilian contractors who supported America’s northern air defense network. The aircraft went down around 12:15 p.m. local time near Cape […]

The FBI arrested a 35-year-old Albany, New York, woman and charged her with attempting to provide material support to ISIS after she allegedly spent weeks planning to bomb the New York State Capitol and kill state senators inside the building. Jessica Bowie was taken into custody on August 19 after meeting with confidential FBI sources […]

Kevin Rideout, an American Christian missionary and pilot who was kidnapped near his home in Niger’s capital last October, has been released after more than nine months in captivity and is now in the care of U.S. officials. His employer, the evangelical mission organization SIM International, confirmed Rideout is alive and in good health, welcome […]

Robert Gilman, a U.S. Marine veteran from Massachusetts, landed at Andrews Air Force Base on Tuesday after spending 1,666 days in Russian custody, much of it under conditions his family representative described as among the worst he has ever seen for an American prisoner abroad. The 32-year-old former teacher arrived in a severely deteriorated medical […]