by Catherine Buchaniec | Mar 15, 2022 | National Security
Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Name one U.S. military conflict after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The world stood still in the hours following...
by Zoya Mirza | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Countering the evolving global terrorism threat posed by al Qaeda, ISIS and other foreign terrorist organizations remains a top priority for the United States, according to experts during a hearing on national security concerns held by the House Committee...
by Casey Egan & Kevin Schmidt | Oct 10, 2017 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is offering multi-million dollar rewards for information that leads to the capture of two of the most wanted terrorist members in Hezbollah, State Department and National Counterterrorism Center officials announced Tuesday. The...
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 Max Greenwood | Jun 29, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The U.S. envoy to a global anti-ISIS coalition told senators Wednesday that the extremist group is losing ground and influence. But lawmakers said they feared militants would push for more international terrorist attacks away from the battlefield as...