by Ricky Zipp | Sep 30, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – More than 75 percent of Raqqa has been cleared of ISIS forces, with only 400 to 800 of the terrorist group’s fighters left in the self-proclaimed capital of the so-called Islamic State caliphate, the chief spokesman for the military’s operation in Iraq...
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by Elizabeth Strassner | Sep 28, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Congress should consider implementing federal minimum cybersecurity standards for elections or mandating a federal assessment of electoral cybersecurity across the country because the integrity of national election outcomes “dances on the head of a pin,”...
by Jasmine Khayami | Sep 28, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Top officials from the Treasury Department and State Department struggled Thursday to convince senators on the banking committee that the Chinese government was fully cooperating with the United States in their interests to denuclearize North Korea. Susan...
by Kevin Schmidt | Sep 27, 2017 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –FBI Director Christopher Wray told a Senate committee Wednesday that the FBI treats domestic terrorist threats as seriously as foreign threats and has arrested 176 people on domestic terrorism charges this year. “We take both of them very, very seriously,”...
by Matt Sussis | Sep 27, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON– The Kurdistan region of Iraq held a landmark referendum Monday that is expected to result in a decision to create its own nation, a vote that the State Department said left the United States “deeply disappointed.” While the results of the referendum...
by Oyin Falana | Sep 26, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — When the Senate approved legislation last week for $700 billion in defense spending in 2018, lawmakers once more left out a provision sought by the Pentagon – a plan to save $10 billion by consolidating and shutting down a number of military bases...
