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Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a National Security Correspondent for The Washington Times. His reporting is regularly featured in the daily Threat Status newsletter.
Previously, he covered energy and the environment, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016, and also spent two years as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration.
Before coming to The Times in 2011, Ben worked as political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

Smoke and fire rise from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel launches strikes against Iranian military targets

Israel on Friday struck military targets in Iran, a long-awaited response to what officials in Jerusalem said were months of drone and missile attacks by Iran and its proxy network across the Middle East.

October 25, 2024
In this photo provided by the Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine on Oct. 16, 2024, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to parliamentarians at Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Press Service Of The President Of Ukraine via AP)

Zelenskyy’s long-promised blueprint to end Russia war draws mixed reviews

The Ukraine-Russia war could end next year on terms favorable to Kyiv if the U.S. and NATO back an ambitious -- and, by most accounts, unrealistic -- five-point victory plan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday as he outlined a proposal that seemed to fall flat across much of the West.

October 16, 2024
A man works next to a destroyed home after rockets struck in Katzrin, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. Lebanon's Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets, hitting a number of private homes in the area.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel vows retaliation as Iran launches new salvo of missiles

Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, and Israeli civilians across the country were ordered to remain near bomb shelters, while President Biden ordered the U.S. military to help repel the assault as the conflict across the Middle East escalated.

October 1, 2024
Smoke rises and debris flies from a bridge as it is targeted by an Israeli air raid, in the Zahrani region, on the Mediterranean coast, southern Lebanon, on July 14, 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

No way out? Biden latest U.S. president trapped by Mideast mayhem

President Biden came to power aiming to do the impossible: Dramatically shrink America's military footprint in the Middle East and redirect Washington's focus away from a volatile corner of the world that has consumed U.S. foreign policy for more than two decades.

September 24, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro holds a news conference at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024, three days after his disputed reelection. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

U.S. seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s official airplane

The U.S. reportedly seized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's official airplane and flew it to America on Monday, marking a major escalation in the standoff between Washington and Caracas just weeks after the Biden administration accused Mr. Maduro of essentially stealing the country's July presidential election.

September 2, 2024
Mourners and family members gather to bury Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was killed in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, attend their son's funeral in Jerusalem, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool via AP)

Israeli judge cuts work stoppage short, but furious Netanyahu gets message

A court ordered tens of thousands of Israelis back to work Monday, ending a short-lived but widespread strike that cast a spotlight on the political divisions and growing anger in the country after the weekend deaths of six Israeli hostages held by the terrorist group Hamas.

September 2, 2024