North Korea's main secret police agency on Friday accused U.S. and South Korean intelligence agents of a failed but elaborate plot to assassinate the isolated nation's leader Kim Jong-un with "biochemical" and "nano poisonous substances." Published May 5, 2017
The front-runner in next week's South Korean presidential election says the U.S. moved too hastily to deploy a major missile defense system here and promises to push a conciliatory policy toward North Korea that might clash with the Trump administration's bare-knuckle approach. Published May 3, 2017
Iran's most famous hard-liner, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is off the ballot -- blocked by the ayatollahs who vet the Islamic republic's acceptable candidates, but the country's spirited presidential race is still shaping up to be a fierce battle over the nuclear deal with the Obama administration and its allies. Published May 1, 2017
It started with taking a protocol-shattering phone call from Taiwan. Then came an almost immediate realignment with Saudi Arabia against Iran, 59 Tomahawk missiles fired at Syria, an increasingly combative posture toward Russia, a massive military strike in Afghanistan and a level of North Korea brinkmanship not seen from U.S. administrations in decades. Published April 27, 2017
The Islamic State group and al Qaeda, long rivals for supremacy in the jihadi struggle, are feeling more pressure to combine as the Islamic State loses its territorial base in Syria and Iraq and the still-potent terrorist network founded by Osama bin Laden prepares to welcome legions of foreign fighters fleeing the advancing U.S.-backed coalition, analysts and officials in the region say. Published April 26, 2017
President Trump's top security aides will host an unusual White House briefing on North Korea for the entire U.S. Senate on Wednesday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and pressure on Washington to organize an effective response to Pyongyang's increasingly brazen military provocations and nuclear tests. Published April 25, 2017
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain suggested Tuesday that he'll push the Trump administration to take a harder line toward China over North Korea's nuclear provocations when senators head to the White House Wednesday for an unusual group briefing on Pyongyang's activities. Published April 25, 2017
Federal law enforcement authorities believe it was a vetted member of the U.S. intelligence community -- either an official CIA employee or a contractor -- who supplied WikiLeaks with a trove of documents that the anti-secrecy group published last month purporting to expose the agency's vast clandestine cyberoperations. Published April 20, 2017
Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson slammed the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday -- just a day after the Trump administration had begrudgingly acknowledged that Tehran is complying with the terms of the 2015 multinational accord negotiated under former President Obama. Published April 19, 2017
U.S. military officials said a pair of American fighter jets intercepted and escorted two Russian bombers away from Alaska's coastline during a high-stakes encounter in international airspace Monday. Published April 18, 2017
Sunday's referendum narrowly granting expansive new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may distance Turkey from the pro-democracy forces of Western Europe, but could bring it closer to Washington, where the Trump administration has shown itself eager to build counterterrorism alliances with perceived strongmen in the Middle East. Published April 17, 2017
Turkish voters chose Sunday to fundamentally restructure their government from parliamentary rule to a presidential system that grants sweeping powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nation's current ruler and driving force behind the change. Published April 16, 2017
Russia and Iran expressed outrage and U.N. officials responded with caution to President Trump's punitive missile strike against Syria Thursday evening over its suspected use of chemical weapons, but Mr. Trump's first use of U.S. military force also was met with expressions of support for the action from around the world. Published April 7, 2017
Republican insiders say Rep. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, got the "genie out of the bottle" regarding suspected misconduct by President Obama's top national security aide, Susan E. Rice, and that his surprise decision Thursday to step aside from leading the panel's probe into Russian meddling in the presidential election was worth it. Published April 6, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping's calculated style will come face-to-face with President Trump's off-the-cuff approach to diplomacy Thursday when the two gather at Mr. Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for what could be the highest stakes U.S.-China summit in more than a decade. Published April 6, 2017
Former National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice categorically denied Tuesday that she did anything wrong by unmasking the identities of Trump campaign officials swept up in U.S. surveillance, while the Republican chairman of a Senate probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election said his panel may want her to testify. Published April 4, 2017
The Obama administration's national security adviser played a central role in "unmasking" several Trump campaign officials who had been swept up in U.S. surveillance operations against foreign targets during last year's presidential election campaign, according to current White House officials and sources on Capitol Hill. Published April 3, 2017
George W. Bush administration spy chief Michael V. Hayden joined the chorus of critics lambasting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' handling of a congressional probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election on Friday. Published March 31, 2017
The American public "deserves to hear the truth about possible Russian involvement in our elections," the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday as the panel opened its first hearing in what is expected to be a monthslong probe and public examination of Moscow's activities. Published March 30, 2017
The White House said Thursday that leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees have been invited to the White House to view intelligence documents relevant to ongoing investigations. Published March 30, 2017
