Bipartisan lawmakers ramp up calls on Biden to give Ukraine weapons, fighter jets
The pressure underscores the growing hawkishness among members of Congress, who have been calling on the administration to do more to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian attacks.
By Amy B WangMarch 13, 2022Russians advance in Ukrainian cities as war deepens and diplomatic efforts fail
Convoys of food and medicine have been unable to reach hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped behind Russian lines, while video and satellite images have shown some of the devastation across Ukraine.
By David L. Stern, Siobhán O'Grady, Gerrit De Vynck and Ellen NakashimaMarch 12, 2022U.S. military investigation finds extensive failures before deadly terror attack in Kenya
The Pentagon blamed the fatalities at Manda Bay on militants who staged the attack.
By Karoun DemirjianMarch 10, 2022Pentagon rules out sending warplanes to Ukraine, says benefit would be ‘low’
Russia’s bombing campaign in Ukraine is growing more indiscriminate as its troops make small but strategic gains on key cities, according to the Pentagon’s latest battlefield assessment.
By Karoun DemirjianMarch 9, 2022John Billings, who flew Allied spies behind Nazi lines, dies at 98
John Billings flew 39 missions for the OSS, the wartime precursor to the CIA. One risky operation dropped Allied spies high in the Austrian Alps.
By Harrison SmithMarch 8, 2022U.S. all but declines Poland’s offer to give Ukraine its old warplanes
In a move that blindsided U.S. officials, the government of Poland announced Tuesday that it was ready to hand over an unspecified number of MiG-29 fighter jets to the United States so that the warplanes could be transferred to Ukraine for use against invading Russian forces.
By John Hudson and Dan LamotheMarch 8, 2022Seemingly stuck Russian convoy hides mysteries
Rather than striking fear in Ukrainians, the once-menacing column of Russian vehicles has inspired Kyiv residents to join the resistance.
By Siobhán O'Grady and Karoun DemirjianMarch 7, 2022Pentagon to shutter fuel storage facility that contaminated drinking water at Pearl Harbor
The Pentagon announced Monday that it is shutting down a World War II-era underground fuel storage facility that caused severe contamination last year of the drinking water used by thousands of military families stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
By Karoun Demirjian and Alex HortonMarch 7, 2022Russian forces attack airfields in Ukraine as Zelensky pleads for fighter jets
Alleged cease-fire violations by Russia block evacuation of Ukrainian civilians.
By David L. Stern, Joby Warrick, Kareem Fahim, Dan Lamothe and Missy RyanMarch 6, 2022As war loomed, U.S. armed Ukraine to hit Russian aircraft, tanks and prep for urban combat, declassified shipment list shows
The variety, volume and potency of firepower being rushed into the war zone illustrate the extent to which the United States sought to prepare the Ukrainian military to wage a hybrid war against Russia, even as President Biden has expressly ruled out inserting American troops into the conflict.
By Karoun Demirjian and Alex HortonMarch 4, 2022As convoy approaching Ukrainian capital appears stalled, Russia unleashes greater firepower
With fighting growing more intense, a huge military convoy stalled outside Kyiv, possibly due to fuel shortages, officials said.
By Isabelle Khurshudyan, Missy Ryan, Sudarsan Raghavan and Dan LamotheMarch 1, 2022Rapid escalation of Ukraine crisis fuels fear of confrontation between Russia and the West
The rapid escalation on both sides, observers say, has made the once-theoretical risk of direct confrontation between Russia and the West a tangible possibility with little hope of the tension subsiding — maybe for years to come.
By Karoun DemirjianMarch 1, 2022With Russian nuclear forces on alert, Ukraine crisis enters more dangerous phase
President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put Russian nuclear forces on alert fueled the potential for deadly miscalculation as the West’s campaign of economic reprisal increases the chances the Russian leader could see his survival and that of the Russian state at risk.
By Missy Ryan, Karoun Demirjian, John Hudson and Shane HarrisFebruary 27, 2022What the U.S. military is doing in response to Russian actions in Ukraine
President Biden has ruled out sending U.S. troops to fight in Ukraine. But there are a lot of other moves the Pentagon can make short of that.
By Dan LamotheFebruary 24, 2022The Russian weaponry being used to attack Ukraine
What to know about the Russian military hardware being used to attack Ukraine.
By Alex HortonFebruary 24, 2022Families of U.S. troops killed in Kabul airport bombing question whether Pentagon distorted investigation findings
Some of the families of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the attack say the release this month of a U.S. military investigation examining the incident has caused them to question whether Defense Department officials were fully honest with them about what transpired.
By Dan LamotheFebruary 19, 2022Wife in Maryland spy couple also pleads guilty in plot to sell U.S. nuclear secrets
Diana Toebbe admitted to helping her husband, a nuclear engineer who worked on Navy submarines, try to sell classified secrets to a foreign country. The couple have two young children.
By Devlin BarrettFebruary 18, 2022Maryland lawmakers demand answers about living conditions at Walter Reed base barracks
Servicemembers have described no hot water and other problems that lawmakers have raised concerns over.
By Meagan FlynnFebruary 17, 2022Court allows Air Force officer to bypass coronavirus vaccine mandate on religious grounds, for now
The officer is the first in the branch to receive a court injunction that excuses her from the military-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate.
By Andrew JeongFebruary 16, 2022Naval engineer from Annapolis pleads guilty to conspiring to share U.S. nuclear sub secrets
Under the terms of Jonathan Toebbe’s plea agreement, he will likely spend at least a dozen years in prison.
By Devlin BarrettFebruary 14, 2022