- 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.
- U.S., allies expel Syrian diplomats over massacre
- Investigators want explanation of alleged overbilling in Afghanistan
- U.S. uses Yemeni Web sites to counter al-Qaeda propaganda
- Ryan Crocker to leave job as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
- NATO leaders agree on framework to wind down Afghan mission
- 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
- As U.S.-Taliban talks stall, hope for political solution dims
- Al-Qaeda airline bomb plot disrupted, U.S. says
- U.S. drone strikes resume in Pakistan; action may complicate vital negotiations
- Obama wants to strike ‘appropriate balance’ on Chinese dissident, official says
- ‘Manhunt’ details U.S. mission to find Osama bin Laden
- Marco Rubio’s foreign policy speech stakes out a middle ground in GOP
- U.S. meeting with China to avoid unfolding murder case
- Afghan officials stress need for U.S. security presence beyond 2014 withdrawal
- Syrian violence spills into Lebanon and Turkey
- Arab states agree to provide millions to pay Syrian opposition fighters
- U.S. to meet with Iran over its nuclear program
- Clinton meets with Gulf nations over missile defense
- Syria crisis tops diplomatic agenda at Turkey-Iran meeting, Arab League summit, Clinton talks
- U.S. seeks more money for Afghan force
- Obama to meet with Pakistan’s Gilani during Seoul nuclear summit
- U.S. general backs plan to pause Afghan drawdown in 2013
- Report: Water shortages increasingly will offer new weapons for states, terror groups
- Afghan officials likely to press for veto power over night raids in formal talks
- U.S. general suggests Afghan force should stay level after ’12 drawdown
- Pakistan’s legislators are urged to seek halt to U.S. drone strikes
- NATO’s measured exit plan in Afghanistan faces new obstacles
- George Clooney urges lawmakers to act to resolve violence in Sudan
- Despite challenges in Afghanistan, U.S. determined to stick to exit strategy
- Talk of military aid rises as hopes fade for peaceful Syria solution
- Pakistan names new spymaster
- Syria’s Bashar al-Assad firmly in control, U.S. intelligence officials say
- U.S. officials warn against intervention in Syria
- Assad’s forces gaining ‘momentum’ in Syria, U.S. general warns
- U.S. to renew efforts to press post-election Russia on Syria issue
- Saudi, Qatari plans to arm Syrian rebels risk overtaking cautious approach favored by U.S.
- Alias causes confusion as wrong man detained in Cairo
- State Department budget request too high, Senate panel tells Clinton
- U.S., others join forces against Syria, but stop short of offering aid to opposition
- Syrian opposition will ‘somehow’ carry out offensive operations against Assad, Clinton says
- Clinton: U.S. ready to reset relations with Pakistan
- U.S. appears to allow for possibility of arming Syrian opposition
- Clinton to meet Pakistani counterpart in London
- U.S. plans to step up aid to Yemen if conditions are met
- Hamid Karzai, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Pakistan for challenging summit
- Bombers strike Syrian city of Aleppo as offensive continues in Homs
- Turkish diplomat: Iran is ready to cut a deal
- Turkey urges international help for Syria
- State Department seeks smaller embassy presence in Baghdad
- U.S. evaluating size of Baghdad embassy, officials say
- U.S. closes embassy, pulls diplomats from Syria as violence intensifies
- Obama administration’s Afghanistan endgame gets off to bumpy start
- Panetta: U.S., NATO will seek to end Afghan combat mission next year
- ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records
- After Obama’s remarks on drones, White House rebuffs security questions
- U.S. launches airstrike against al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen
- Clinton to attend U.N. meeting on Syria
- France will speed up troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by one year
- Clinton: Done with the ‘high wire’ of politics. Really.
- Navy SEALs rescue kidnapped aid workers Jessica Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted in Somalia
- 2012 State of the Union analysis: Obama on national security
- U.S. may close embassy in Syria
- As U.S.-Pakistani relations sink, nations try to figure out ‘a new normal’
- U.S. peace talks with Taliban to resume
- Public ire one goal of Iran sanctions, U.S. official says
- Strength of Egyptian Islamists proves a test for Obama’s pro-democracy policy in the Middle East
- Senators: Stop harassing former Pakistan envoy
- Afghan President Karzai supports direct U.S.-Taliban talks
- U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down
- U.S.: Poor coordination, mapping data led to Pakistani deaths in cross-border raid
- Maliki demands return of Iraqi VP Hashimi, threatens to replace opponents
- Death of Kim Jong Il has U.S. waiting and worrying
- Secrecy defines Obama’s drone war
- Pentagon’s Michele Flournoy to step down
- Clinton rejects Zardari rumors amid U.S.-Pakistan tensions
- Putin accuses Clinton, U.S. of fomenting election protests
- NATO chief rebuffs Russian threats to counter missile shield
- Clinton meets with Syria opposition
- Obama administration targets anti-gay discrimination abroad
- Ambassador Robert Ford heads back to Syria
- Clinton: Afghans ‘have more work to do’
- Clinton to meet with Syrian opposition leaders
- Afghanistan says it will need outside aid until 2025
- U.S. breach with Pakistan shows imbalance between diplomatic, security goals
- Pakistan bows out of key conference, citing deadly U.S. raid
- Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on Pakistan
- Yemen president Saleh to step down; Bahrain acknowledges use of torture, excessive force
- Bahrain admits to ‘excessive force’ against protesters
- In Pakistan, a deep civil-military divide
- Without large U.S. force after 2014, Afghanistan is headed for civil war, opposition leader warns
- Pakistani ambassador offers resignation
- In Arab Spring speech, Clinton defends U.S. stance on Syria, Bahrain
- At meeting, Afghanistan’s neighbors promise cooperation and aid
- U.S. revises its strategy for ending the Afghan war
- In House testimony, Clinton asks for patience on Afghanistan, Pakistan
- GOP presidential field unified in opposition to Iraq withdrawal
- All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011
- President Obama points to value of ‘collective action’ in Libya
- Musharraf, with lobbyists, gets back in the game
- U.S. goes after Haqqani network
- U.S. steps up drone strikes in Pakistan against Haqqani network
- Iran behind alleged terrorist plot, U.S. says
- Low-key al-Jubeir wields high-level power
- Despite death of Awlaki, U.S.-Yemen relations strained
- Pakistan seeks an update on Raymond Davis
- “State vs. Defense: The Battle to Define America’s Empire,” by Stephen Glain
- Adm. Mullen’s words on Pakistan come under scrutiny
- Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh makes unexpected return from Saudi Arabia
- U.S. perplexed by Yemeni’s return
- Pakistan backed attacks on American targets, U.S. says
- U.S.: Pakistanis supported Afghan attacks
- U.S. sharpens warning to Pakistan
- U.S. increases Yemen drone strikes
- Corrupt Afghan trucking for U.S. military probed by Congress
- Revisiting ‘Warlord Inc.’ and seeking answers
- In Havana, appeals for release of Alan Gross are drowned out by calls to free the ‘Cuban Five’
- Brennan: Al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen gaining strength as a powerful domestic insurgency
- Obama calls on Libya’s neighbors to arrest fleeing Gaddafi loyalists
- In memoir, Cheney defends decisions, Bush as president
- Libyan rebels, allies implement plans to prevent anarchy in Tripoli
- Allies guided rebel ‘pincer’ assault on Tripoli
- U.S. aid implicated in abuses of power in Colombia
- Terrorism report arrives with a whimper
- U.S. military awards contracts in Afghanistan to get money away from insurgents
- U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes
- U.S. withholding military aid to Pakistan
- Iraqis fail to agree on whether to ask for some U.S. troops to stay beyond deadline
- In Somali terror suspect’s case, administration blends military, civilian systems
- U.S. indicts Somali on terrorism charges
- CIA idles drone flights from base in Pakistan
- U.S. drone targets two leaders of Somali group allied with al-Qaeda, official says
- Brennan: Counterterrorism strategy focused on al-Qaeda’s threat to homeland
- Study: U.S. has chance, but not a good one, to succeed in Afghanistan
- Clinton: Talks with Taliban not ‘pleasant’ but ‘necessary’
- Obama’s drawdown in Afghanistan will shift tactics in war
- Obama’s task: maintaining support for Afghan war
- Obama’s task: maintaining support for Afghan war
- Obama to announce Afghanistan withdrawal plans Wednesday
- Obama to announce Afghan plans Wednesday
- Pakistan-U.S. security relationship at lowest point since 2001, officials say
- Lawmakers push for new Afghan strategy
- New challenge for U.S.-Pakistan ties
- Panetta arrives in Pakistan unannounced
- Obama administration defends its Afghan aid programs
- U.S. wants ‘joint bases’ in Afghanistan, Gates says
- Afghan nation-building programs not sustainable, report says
- Clinton visits Pakistan to firm up new ties
- CIA to search bin Laden compound
- U.S., E.U. and Arab allies review support for Yemen in bid to resolve escalating crisis
- Pakistan ordered about a fifth of U.S. Special Forces trainers to leave the country as relations deteriorated
- U.S. speeds up direct talks with Taliban
- Obama administration is divided over future of U.S.-Pakistan relationship
- Mideast envoy George Mitchell to resign
- NATO missiles hit Gaddafi’s complex
- Bin Laden’s preoccupation with U.S. said to be source of friction with followers
- With bin Laden dead, some escalate push for new Afghan strategy
- Pakistani military, government warn U.S. against future raids
- U.S. presses Pakistan for information on Osama bin Laden compound
- Failure to discover bin Laden’s refuge stirs suspicion over Pakistan’s role
- Obama to nominate CIA Director Leon Panetta as defense secretary
- Petraeus and Panetta said to be up for new posts as part of national security shakeup
- Escalating protests in Syria put Obama administration in a bind
- U.S., Europeans step up efforts to aid Libyan rebels
- NATO runs short on some munitions in Libya
- Top White House aide delivers Obama letter to Saudi king
- CIA, Pakistan look to repair widening rift
- Pakistan threatens to impose new restrictions on CIA activities
- Libyan rebels get diplomatic, military boost
- Italy recognizes Libyan rebel government; Gaddafi envoy visits Europe
- In diplomatic overture, Gaddafi emissary meets Greek leader in Athens
- In Libya mission, war blurs humanitarian focus
- Libyan foreign minister, once a Gaddafi confidant, defects
- In Libya, CIA is gathering intelligence on rebels
- CIA operatives in Libya to gather intelligence on rebel fighters
- U.S. deploys low-flying attack planes in Libya
- Libyan intervention making ‘progress,’ Obama says
- NATO reaches deal to take over Libya operation; allied planes hit ground forces
- On Libya, France steps forward to assume spotlight
- Yemeni parliament agrees to impose emergency law
- WikiLeaks: Colombia began using U.S. drones for counterterrorism in 2006
- U.S. appears to be closer to turning over command of Libya operation
- Yemeni president Saleh threatens civil war, calls for dialogue
- Yemen’s leader battens down the hatches as defections mount
- In Libya, new rifts open in international coalition
- Questions raised about U.S. role and goals in Libya
- U.S., allies’ jets poised to fly over Libya as other nations mull strategy
- Europeans say intervention in Libya possible within hours of U.N. vote
- Obama administration seeks more U.N. authority to intervene in Libya
- Petraeus: Taliban momentum halted in Afghanistan, but harder fighting ahead
- Obama concerned about Gaddafi’s gains but says noose is tightening on Libyan leader
- U.S., Europe considering naval operations to deliver humanitarian aid to Libya
- Obama signals willingness to intervene militarily in Libya if crisis worsens
- U.S. defense leaders warn of risks in enforcing no-fly zone