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Rowan Scarborough

Rowan Scarborough spent over 30 years at The Washington Times covering national security, including the Democrats' "Russia Hoax." He wrote two books, "Rumsfeld's War" and "Sabotage." A Navy veteran, Mr. Scarborough graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland. He reported for The Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times, Wilmington (Del.) News Journal and Defense Week.

Articles by Rowan Scarborough

ISIS drone dropping precision bombs alarms U.S. military

In a new threat to the West, the Islamic State on Tuesday debuted on social media a commercially available drone dropping small bombs with pinpoint accuracy onto Iraqi targets in and around Mosul.

January 24, 2017

ISIS finds easy recruits in prisons of Indonesia

The Islamic State is seeking a foothold in the prisons of Indonesia, a country with the world's largest Muslim population and significant poverty.

January 22, 2017

Army picks Sig Sauer for new handgun before John Mattis takes charge at Pentagon

It has taken the Army an agonizing decade to write the requirements, evaluate the candidates and pick a successor to the 30-year-old Beretta M9 pistol.

January 22, 2017

Donald Trump urged to get tough on Iranian rights

A group of Republicans, Democrats and retired military officers has asked President-elect Donald Trump to abandon President's Obama's soft approach to Iran's "brutal repression" and take a stand that puts the U.S. "on the right side of history."

January 17, 2017

Michael Flynn, James Mattis dim Donald Trump’s hopes for strong Russia ties

National Security Adviser-designate Michael T. Flynn has offered notably different views on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, as the retired three-star Army general prepares to become Donald Trump's closest White House adviser on Friday.

January 15, 2017

The explosive ‘dossier’ on Donald Trump, and how it emerged, reads like a Cold War spy novel

The story reads like a John le Carre Cold War novel, complete with Moscow's bad guys, Great Britain's MI6 spy agency and Washington's FBI counter-intelligence.

January 13, 2017

Navy sailor invokes Hillary Clinton defense in bid for clemency over classified photos

A former Navy submariner sent to prison for photographing his ship's classified engine compartments has filed a presidential clemency request, arguing that President-elect Donald Trump should realize the sailor was a "scapegoat" amid the FBI probe into Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified material.

January 10, 2017

ISIS using Telegram app to broadcast terror instructions, propaganda

The Islamic State's terrorist army in recent weeks has used channels on a popular messaging app to show gruesome killings and to instruct followers on how to attack the U.S. with chemical weapons, despite the app's assertion that it blocks such extremists.

January 8, 2017

Democrats bash CIA over torture but not Russia hacks

It was less than two years ago that Democrats were bashing the CIA enhanced interrogation of terrorism suspects and accusing the agency of providing false information.

January 5, 2017

Terror groups abandoning complex plots, concentrate on attacks by digital-savvy loners

A confidential government report says terrorist groups such as the Islamic State have all but abandoned trying to put together huge plots such as the Sept. 11 attacks and warns counterterrorism agencies of a "new landscape" where lone killers strike and massacre quickly thanks to the digital age.

January 4, 2017

Donald Trump blasts Boeing, Lockheed Martin for overpriced weapons

Military reformers in the nation's capital may have found a soul mate in a billionaire real estate magnate who takes a keen interest in what things cost, including big weapons systems.

January 3, 2017

ISIS arrests in Northern Virginia reveal jihadi threat near seat of U.S. government

Law enforcement agencies have arrested nine Northern Virginia residents on charges of aiding the Islamic State since the terrorist group rose to power in Syria and Iraq in 2014 and launched social media propaganda to attract followers, a government message to police states.

December 26, 2016

Obama already set to spend $20B a year to update U.S. nukes

President-elect Donald Trump has stirred up fears of a new arms race in a Twitter message on improving "nuclear capability," but President Obama already has committed to spending as much as $20 billion a year to update the nation's ability to conduct a nuclear war.

December 23, 2016

ISIS lures the poor and the prosperous from 50 countries to build terrorist army

The Islamic State drew far more fighters from far more countries than its predecessor, a steady flow from far-flung global regions that helps explain the terrorists' commitment to mass murder and destruction once they arrived to create a ballyhooed promised land.

December 21, 2016

Iran brutalizing Aleppo, executing ‘most atrocious war crimes’ of 21st century

Iran's brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force has played an extensive role in the rape of Aleppo, building a network of bases around the Syrian city and directing militiamen from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan to do the killing, an Iranian opposition group says in a new intelligence report.

December 20, 2016

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Celebrating America’s 250th Honoring the milestones that got us here