10 articles in the National Security category.
By Tommy Flynn
The FBI added Turkish national Onur Simsek to its Most Wanted Fraudsters list this month and GSA Administrator Edward C. Forst tied the case to a wider effort to stop overseas actors from penetrating federal programs. Prosecutors say Simsek, believed to be in Turkey, used a...
By Tommy Flynn
CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Friday declassified 71 President’s Daily Brief products spanning Feb. 13, 1998, through Sept. 12, 2001, calling the release “the single largest release of CIA analysis related to 9/11 ever.” Sixty-nine of the items had never been made public. The...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump marked the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at the Pentagon on Friday rather than at Ground Zero in New York, where Vice President JD Vance represented the White House. The National September 11 Memorial & Museum has barred speeches at the...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. forces struck multiple Iranian oil tankers tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Tuesday after further attempted ballistic-missile attacks on a Navy warship, a U.S. official told the Associated Press and Al-Monitor. Iranian state television reported hits near...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. forces assigned to the southern border took down approximately 100 suspected cartel drones in August, a senior War Department official told Fox News, the first time the Pentagon has put a monthly number on the fight. Joint Task Force–Southern Border carried out the...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. forces operating with Ecuador near the eastern Pacific shipping lanes intercepted and destroyed commercial vessels the Pentagon says were being used as floating gas stations for boats moving narcotics toward the United States, U.S. Southern Command and officials familiar...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Friday the United States may strike Iran’s underground complex known as Pickaxe Mountain “very soon” if activity is detected there. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after this week’s renewed strikes and his comments on U.S. control of the...
By RWTNews Staff
The Justice Department announced this week that court-authorized seizures allowed the FBI to take approximately $560,000 in cryptocurrency destined for Hamas and to seize domains and servers used by the group’s military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, to raise money and recruit...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Wednesday that overnight U.S. strikes on Iran were “a very heavy attack,” that American forces destroyed new Iranian equipment along the Strait of Hormuz, and that the military is prepared to hit again “any time we want.” Asked how long the renewed bombing...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Central Command said American forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran at noon Eastern time Tuesday, after what it described as attempted IRGC attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against U.S. troops in the region. The...