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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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In this photo released Thursday, June 10, 2021, by the Iranian army, Iranian warships seen in the Atlantic Ocean. Iran has dispatched two warships to the Atlantic Ocean, a rare mission to demonstrate the country's maritime power, state TV reported Thursday, without specifying the vessels' final destination. (Iranian Army via AP) **FILE**

Iran sends warships across Atlantic Ocean for first time

Iran on Friday confirmed that two of the country's warships are sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for the first time, setting off alarm bells for top U.S. military officials who fear Tehran may be sending weapons to Venezuela or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere.

June 11, 2021
Smoke rises after a huge explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 1, 2019. Powerful explosion rocks Afghan capital, with smoke seen billowing from downtown area near U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**

Painful memories as U.S. ponders safety of Afghan embassy

The Biden administration is working feverishly to ensure the long-term security of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as combat troops leave Afghanistan later this summer, with analysts warning that failure to keep open a diplomatic outpost after two decades of war would be a foreign policy "disaster" of historic proportions.

June 10, 2021
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin listens to a question as he speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, in this Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

New budget would kill Pentagon contingency ‘slush fund’

President Biden's fiscal 2022 budget proposal released Friday would eliminate the Pentagon's long-standing and highly controversial "overseas contingency operations" account, which critics have blasted as a secretive slush fund that allows the military to hide some of its spending.

May 28, 2021