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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

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
Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group raise their fists and cheer as Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah appears via a video link, during a rally to commemorate Hezbollah fighters who were killed in South Lebanon last few weeks while fighting against the Israeli forces, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Nasrallah's speech had been widely anticipated throughout the region as a sign of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Border strikes fuel Hezbollah-Israel tensions as Gaza incursion deepens

The Shiite militant group Hezbollah threatened Israel on Monday with a "firm and strong" response and said the Jewish state "will pay the price" after an Israeli airstrike reportedly killed three children in Lebanon, stoking fears of a two-front war that could plunge the Middle East into chaos.

November 6, 2023
A woman holds a banner with a picture of an Israeli kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel during a protest calling for the return of the hostages, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

U.S. drones flying over Gaza, aiding hostage recovery efforts

Unarmed U.S. drones are flying over the Gaza Strip to help recover hostages, the Pentagon said Friday, as Israel, America and other nations race to secure the release of the more than 200 prisoners believed to be held by Hamas terrorists.

November 3, 2023
Israeli soldiers move towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel Wednesday, Nov.1, 2023. Israeli ground forces have been operating in Gaza in recent days as Israel presses ahead with its war against Hamas militants. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

‘One fight’: White House links Russia, Hamas, China as it pushes $106 billion funding bill

The threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and the Palestinian militant group Hamas are all part of "one fight" that the U.S. and its allies must win, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told lawmakers Tuesday as the Biden administration mounted a full-court press to push through Congress a comprehensive $106 billion aid package that would reach all corners of the globe.

October 31, 2023
Secretary of State Antony Blinken pauses as his testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee to aid to Israel and Ukraine is overwhelmed by shouts from protesters in the audience, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Protesters’ outbursts shake Senate hearing on Israel funding

Demonstrators repeatedly disrupted a high-profile Senate hearing Tuesday and called for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, accusing the U.S. of "funding genocide" in the Palestinian enclave as Israel responds to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack.

October 31, 2023