National Security

Norway announced Wednesday that it will join France’s “forward deterrence” initiative, becoming the ninth European country to sign onto a program designed to fold France’s nuclear arsenal into a broader continental security framework. The move marks another step in a European defense shift that American conservatives have demanded for decades. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr […]

A former mayor of Arcadia, California, stood in federal court Friday and admitted she had covertly served as an agent of the Chinese government, distributing Beijing’s propaganda through a fake news website while holding elected office in a quiet Southern California city. Eileen Li Wang, who rose to the mayor’s seat through Arcadia’s rotating system […]

Israeli and Lebanese military delegations sat across from each other at the Pentagon on Friday for the first direct military talks between the two countries in decades, a meeting aimed at enforcing a fragile ceasefire while Israeli forces simultaneously pushed deeper into southern Lebanon. The talks, mediated by the United States, opened Friday morning in […]

Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei has spent nearly three months in hiding, communicating with his own government through secret courier networks, and any deal he strikes with the United States would have to pass through that same shadowy system. That is the extraordinary reality confronting American negotiators as they push for an accord to end […]

Sen. Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued a blunt warning Thursday to President Donald Trump: walk away from the negotiating table with Tehran and let the U.S. military finish what it started. The Mississippi Republican’s statement landed just hours after Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged “some progress” in […]

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he would speak with Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te, a move that would mark the first formal conversation between a sitting U.S. president and a Taiwanese leader since Washington severed diplomatic recognition of Taipei in 1979. The remark, made as Trump prepared to board Air Force One, drew an […]

President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday that he had been just “an hour away” from approving a major military strike on Iran before pulling back, granting Tehran a narrow window of several more days to negotiate under the threat of overwhelming force. The revelation puts a sharp timestamp on how […]

President Donald Trump issued his sharpest warning yet to Iran on Sunday, posting on Truth Social that Tehran must move immediately toward a peace agreement or risk annihilation. The message landed hours after Fox News Digital reported that Trump was actively weighing a return to military action against the Islamic Republic. “For Iran, the Clock […]

Federal authorities brought an Iraqi militia commander to a New York courtroom Friday to face six terrorism charges after what the FBI described as a major international operation to dismantle a campaign of attacks against Jewish institutions, American targets, and allies across three continents. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national whom prosecutors […]

The FBI announced a $200,000 reward Thursday for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Monica Witt, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist and counterintelligence agent who allegedly defected to Iran more than a decade ago and handed classified national defense secrets to the Iranian regime. Witt, now 47, has been a fugitive […]