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Ben Wolfgang

Ben Wolfgang

bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com

Ben Wolfgang is a national security correspondent at The Washington Times, a senior member of its Threat Status team, and the host and producer of the award-winning Threat Status Podcast. Ben covers national security, foreign policy, military affairs, the defense industry and the rapidly evolving landscape of military technology.
A Pennsylvania native, he joined The Washington Times in 2011 after serving as a political reporter at The Republican-Herald in Pottsville, Pa. Over the course of his career, Ben has covered the White House, Congress, and four presidential campaigns.
His reporting has earned recognition from some of journalism's most respected organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Society of Professional Journalists' Washington, D.C. Chapter, among other honors.
Ben has interviewed heads of state, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, senior military commanders, cabinet secretaries, senior government officials, and the CEOs of many of the nation's largest and most influential defense companies.
Ben is a frequent guest on broadcast media, with appearances on C-SPAN, the Sirius XM POTUS channel, and other outlets.
He can be reached at bwolfgang@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Ben Wolfgang

With his face painted in the colors of the Iranian flag, a man weeps as he waves Iranian and Palestinian flags in the annual rally to mark Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, in support of Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 5, 2024. In the rally in Tehran, thousands attended a funeral procession for the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran's Consulate in the Syrian capital on Monday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran launches major drone attack against Israel

Iran on Saturday launched a coordinated drone attack on Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. officials, as Tehran brushed off warnings from the Biden administration and appeared willing to escalate its standoff with Jerusalem.

April 13, 2024
Russian soldiers secure an area at near the Crocus City Hall concert venue on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, on Saturday, March 23, 2024. The March 22 attack on the venue that killed at least 140 people marked a major failure of Russian security agencies. (Alexander Avilov/Moscow News Agency via AP, File)

Former U.S. officials say Russia probably could have stopped ISIS-K attack

The U.S. likely provided Russia with enough information to help avert the recent ISIS-K attack on a Moscow concert that killed more than 130 people, a former American military official said Sunday, as questions swirl about whether the Kremlin knew the assault was coming and allowed it to happen.

March 31, 2024
In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, visits a woman who was wounded in Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Iranian officials tried Friday to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing, seeking to intertwine the assault with wider Middle East tensions from the Israel-Hamas war. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

It’s complicated: Terror group ISIS-K targets U.S. — and its worst enemies

The rapidly growing threat posed by the Islamic State-Khorasan Province, the jihadi terrorist group's Afghanistan affiliate better known as ISIS-K, has linked the U.S. with some of its most bitter enemies, including Russia, Iran and even Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, in the high-stakes world of counterterrorism.

March 21, 2024
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies to the House Armed Services Committee, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Numbers war: Watchdog group presses Pentagon on Austin’s Gaza death toll claims

A nonpartisan watchdog group sent a letter to top Pentagon officials this week requesting all information that led to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's public claim that more than 25,000 Palestinians had been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 -- a figure based on data supplied by the Hamas militant group.

March 14, 2024
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