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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.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S.-Israel tensions boil over as Washington welcomes Netanyahu rival for talks

Tensions between the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government neared the boiling point Monday as Biden administration officials ramped up their public pressure on Jerusalem over the "intolerable" humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip while simultaneously embracing one of Mr. Netanyahu's most popular political rivals.

March 4, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shares a toast with Russian servicemen during a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo State residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. With the fighting in Ukraine now entering its third year, Putin hopes to achieve his goals by biding his time and waiting for Western support for Ukraine to wither while Moscow maintains its steady military pressure along the front line. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Ukraine faces bleak future as war with Russia hits third year

Ukrainian troops are running perilously low on ammunition. Russian forces are gaining ground in the Donbas. And in America, the political fight over the utility of continued financial aid for Ukraine has reached a fever pitch.

February 22, 2024
Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Biden has few options for floundering war on al-Shabab, with echoes of Afghanistan

To fully understand the slate of bad options facing the U.S. in Somalia, consider this: National security analysts say that the Somali government troops are "several degrees of magnitude worse" than the hapless Afghan army that surrendered to the Taliban in a matter of weeks in 2021 after the Biden administration announced the U.S. combat troop withdrawal.

February 19, 2024
A man looks at photographs on a wall of hostages who were abducted during the Oct. 7, unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, in Jerusalem, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Israel vows to press ahead in Gaza as hostage talks near finish line

The Israel-Hamas war raced ahead on dual tracks Tuesday, with Israeli officials vowing to press forward with an offensive in the southern Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border even as both sides -- and the Biden administration -- tried to clinch a deal that would free all remaining hostages held by the Palestinian militants.

February 6, 2024