National Security

U.S. is not planning preemptive strikes on Iran, but any killing of Americans linked to Tehran will bring an “extraordinarily forceful” response, officials say.

Wreaths Across America draws thousands of volunteers every winter to place holiday wreaths at headstones.

The test northeast of Hawaii marks the first time the United States has demonstrated it can down an incoming ICBM using an interceptor based on a ship.

U.S. officials point to cyber operations and other actions as helping to prevent attacks, and Putin may have calculated that he had little to gain by reprising 2016.

The White House is expected to announce a reduction of U.S. forces from around 5,000 to 2,500 in Afghanistan by the time President Trump leaves office in January.

White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said if Biden is determined to be the winner, and “obviously things look that way now,” there will be a professional transition.

A mass shooting in El Paso, allegedly targeting immigrants, fueled a bloody rise in bias killings.

Haji Najibullah was arrested last month in connection to the 2008 abduction of Rohde and two other men.

Incoming Biden administration will face an assertive Tehran with more oil customers and a growing stockpile of nuclear fuel.

Incoming defense leaders are expected to focus on China’s military rise and curtailing the nation’s long counterinsurgent conflicts.

Abu Muhammad al-Masri was accused of directing the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa.

Mark T. Esper raised several concerns while recommending against deeper troop cuts now.

The Justice Department lawyers objected to the attorney general’s recent move giving prosecutors more leeway to investigate fraud before election results are certified.

The two dead are not veteran patients, VA officials said.

The case was overseen by Alexander Acosta, a former U.S. attorney in Florida who later served as President Trump’s labor secretary.