The move to label Brotherhood affiliates as terrorist groups could reshape regional alliances, financial networks, and U.S.

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Ambassador Joseph DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate ...

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Our [the Joint Chiefs of Staff] job is to present and my job with the Joint Chiefs and others is to present the range of [military] options that this President or any President should consider with ...

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A wave of covert attacks—from rail lines blasts to fiber cables—signals a sharper Russian campaign to destabilize Europe and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened that Russia might use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or territory is threatened, as it enters the fourth year in its war of aggression in ...

Brigadier General Edin Fako serves as the Inspector General of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Ministry of Defense. He ...

Hoffman served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive clandestine service officer with assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle ...