- Karen DeYoung
- Staff Writer
Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for the Washington Post. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and London and correspondent covering the the White House, U.S. foreign policy and the intelligence community, as well as assistant managing editor for national news, national editor and foreign editor. She has won numerous awards for national and international reporting and is the author of “Soldier,” a biography of Colin Powell.
House panel demands answers for alleged overbilling in Afghanistan
Investigators probing $750 million in excessive food charges by U.S. contractor dating back to 2005.
U.S. uses Yemeni Web sites to counter al-Qaeda propagda
State Department team posted rival ads on sites, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.
Ryan Crocker to leave job as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
Diplomat says health issues cause his summer departure, a year after being called out of retirement.
NATO leaders agree on framework to wind down Afghanistan mission
The strategy, built around the steady withdrawal of international troops through 2014, holds risks for Obama and could threaten the gains secured by U.S. forces.
- As Obama opens NATO summit in Chicago, focus is on winding down Afghanistan war
- Pakistan seeks $5,000 transit fee for each NATO container
- President Obama executive order gives Treasury authority to freeze Yemeni assets in U.S.
- Syrian rebels get influx of arms with gulf neighbors’ money, U.S. coordination
- U.S. to resume some military sales to Bahrain
- Suicide attack in Syria makes international action less likely
- U.S. launches airstrike in Yemen as new details surface about bomb plot
- Family lobbies for soldier to be included in Taliban prisoner swap
