Articles by Rowan Scarborough
An after-action review of the deadly SEAL Team 6 raid of a terrorist compound in Yemen shows that the Jan. 29 mission was not compromised, but it also concludes that the enemy was more ready to fight than expected and that women in one building surprised the commandos by firing weapons.
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March 15, 2017
Shares A Republican congressman has upped the pressure on President Trump over proposed cuts to the Coast Guard budget, asking House appropriators to restore $500 million that the White House erased for a new national security cutter, the Coast Guard's largest to protect the homeland.
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March 14, 2017
Shares Iran has deployed a new counter-drone weapon -- a rifle-shaped jamming device that the regime says can electronically separate a remotely piloted aircraft from its command pilot and even reprogram it to turn on its owner.
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March 12, 2017
Shares Iran has spent up to $100 billion the last five years financing operations in Syria, says a new ebook by Iranian dissidents.
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March 8, 2017
Shares When Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, President's Trump's national security adviser, appeared at a Washington think tank last year, he asserted that the Islamic State terrorist group "can't be contained."
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March 5, 2017
Shares Sen. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, on Sunday walked back his bombshell declaration about transcripts showing Russia-Trump collusion, saying he had no proof such documents exist and apologizing for any "hyperventilating."
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March 5, 2017
Shares Sen. Christopher Coons set the liberal Twitter world ablaze Friday night when he told MSNBC that the FBI has transcripts of intercepted calls that may spell out collusion between President Trump's campaign and top Russians, maybe even President Vladimir Putin.
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March 4, 2017
Shares President Trump's pledge Tuesday night in an address to Congress to rebuild the military did not include the armed services' fifth branch -- the U.S. Coast Guard.
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March 2, 2017
Shares When Virginia Delegate Robert Marshall asked the state's 133 local governments to provide numbers on noncitizens and jury pools, Loudoun County produced some hefty figures.
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March 1, 2017
Shares Trump administration officials believe that a Department of Homeland Security report that undercut the president's position on his travel ban was drafted with the express intent of leaking it to the press, a source close to the department says.
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February 26, 2017
Shares Russian President Vladimir Putin not only is lurking in the Middle East and Eastern Europe but also is building up military forces in the expansive Arctic as the U.S. watches.
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February 19, 2017
Shares A large number of non-citizen Hispanics, as many as 2 million, were illegally registered to vote in the U.S., according to a nationwide poll.
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February 15, 2017
Shares The U.S. Army depicted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an insider threat in a Powerpoint presentation to soldiers on cyber security.
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February 15, 2017
Shares Iran's hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime's largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington.
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February 14, 2017
Shares A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections.
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February 12, 2017
Shares The Pentagon has been stripped of almost all of its political appointees from the Obama administration, but an uncertain Senate future awaits the candidates whom President Trump will nominate to remake the armed forces in his image.
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February 8, 2017
Shares The Navy has issued its last major directive of the Barack Obama era with a "diversity road map" that paves the way for a multiethnic force of sailors and civilians who are protected against discrimination based on "gender identity" or "sex stereotyping."
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February 5, 2017
Shares When senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway misspoke and described a terrorist "massacre" in Bowling Green, Kentucky, it was a garbled reference to the fact that two Iraqi refugees who settled there turned out to be committed terrorists.
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February 5, 2017
Shares A Pentagon investigation into allegations that U.S. Central Command "cooked the books" in battlefield intelligence has concluded that no senior officials falsified reports or deliberately distorted them to make war progress against the Islamic State look better than it was.
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February 1, 2017
Shares Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab in 2012 was among the first Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S. after President Obama lifted a six-month freeze on such entries as his aides tightened a shaky vetting process.
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January 31, 2017
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