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Ben Wolfgang

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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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The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, as part of a wider American deployment in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. The Eisenhower was accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely and the USS Stethem and the French frigate Languedoc. (Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/U.S. Navy via AP)

Houthis goad U.S. Navy in Middle East, step up campaign against Israel, shipping

A series of escalating clashes between U.S. troops and Houthi rebel forces adds even more fuel to a powder keg in the Middle East, with analysts warning that the Iran-backed militant movement in Yemen is the most dangerous of adversaries -- an unpredictable force with little to lose and no particular stake in stability in one of the world's most dangerous regions.

December 4, 2023
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, greets soldiers as he visits the Gaza Strip, where he received security briefings with commanders and soldiers and visited one of the tunnels that has been revealed, on Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout via AP)

War threatens to end Netanyahu power; Israelis fed up with divisiveness, defiance of accountability

The bloody campaign to crush Hamas is perhaps the most ambitious undertaking of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decades of rule. Even as the nation rallies together after Hamas' horrific Oct. 7 terrorist assault and while a shaky cease-fire and prisoner exchange plays out, a recent survey showed Mr. Netanyahu's approval rating among the Israeli public at a dismal 22%.

November 26, 2023
Black smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab, a Lebanese border village with Israel in south Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies have been clashing along the border since the Israel-Hamas war started five weeks ago with a bloody incursion into southern Israel by Hezbollah ally Hamas. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel military says footage shows Hamas used hospital as base, arms depot

Israeli troops on Wednesday said they uncovered caches of weapons, computers and other elements of the Palestinian Hamas militia's arsenal hidden inside the Shifa hospital in Gaza, even as the raid on the enclave's largest medical facility added more fuel to an already white-hot global debate over the humanitarian cost of the Israeli offensive.

November 15, 2023
A pair of U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle flies over northern Iraq, after conducting airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 23, 2014. (Associated Press)

U.S. fighter jets hit Iran-backed militias in Syria again

U.S. fighter jets on Wednesday struck Iran-backed militias in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said, the second such American strike against Iran-linked groups over the past two weeks as fears of escalation mount in the Middle East.

November 8, 2023