- 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.
Relief in Washington amid shakeup
First reaction in the U.S. to the news that military chiefs had been forced from office was deep alarm.
U.S.: Hezbollah helping Syrian regime
The Obama administration says Lebanon-based Hezbollah is assisting in brutal crackdown.
White House adviser defends Yemen strategy
John Brennan says airstrikes are part of a broader effort to undermine the al-Qaeda branch there.
Syria instability leaves U.S. at crossroads
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to meet with “activists on the ground.”
- Romney team struggles to sharpen foreign policy message
- U.N. Security Council opens talks on dueling Syria resolutions
- Ban on U.S. investment in Burma is lifted
- Corruption in Afghanistan still a problem as international donors meet
- Northern land routes to be crucial in U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
- Ocean explorer Bob Ballard finds bodies of Turkish pilots shot down by Syria
- Pakistan agrees to open supply lines after U.S. apology
- Syria conference fails to specify plan for Assad
