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Carlo Muñoz is a former military correspondent for The Washington Times.

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Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper told the Senate Armed Service Committee that the U.S. needs an information agency "on steroids" to fight Russia's propaganda operation. (Associated Press)

James Clapper, intel chiefs call for tougher fight against Russia

The nation's top intelligence chiefs said Thursday that the government needed to conduct a far more aggressive information war push to counter foreign cyberespionage while strongly defending their conclusion that top Russian officials authorized efforts to hack the presidential election in an effort to influence the vote.

January 5, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump

Russia role in election hacks debated by Congress, intelligence community

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday essentially killed any notion of a special committee to investigate Russia's possible role in cyberhacks of the DNC as the nation's top intelligence leaders prepared to testify on Capitol Hill for the first time since the election of Donald Trump.

January 4, 2017
Funeral services were held for victims of what Turkish authorities are calling a terrorist attack. A gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with New Year's revelers and killed 39 people before fleeing the scene. (Associated Press)

Turkey’s New Year’s ‘terrorist’ hunted

Turkish officials launched a nationwide manhunt for the gunman responsible for a mass New Year's shooting at a packed Istanbul nightclub, which the government denounced as an act of terrorism.

January 1, 2017
French soldiers were on patrol at the Christmas market in Marseille this week after the deadly attack Monday evening in Berlin. The Islamic State is using propaganda to self-radicalize terrorists using low-cost, high-impact resources such as trucks and knives. (Associated Press)

ISIS perfects art of self-radicalization, confounds counterterrorism officials

Monday's Christmas market attack in Berlin was the latest in an increasingly low-tech terrorism campaign being waged by the Islamic State and its sympathizers who favor butcher knives and trucks driven into crowds over suicide belts and booby-trapped cars -- a tactical shift that has confounded American and European counterterrorism officials.

December 21, 2016
This image posted online on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016, by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, purports to show a general view of the ancient ruins of the city of Palmyra, in Homs province, Syria, with the Citadel of Palmyra in the background. (Militant video via AP)

Multiple U.S. airstrikes destroy ISIS weapons cache in Palmyra

American commanders in Syria followed through on pledges to destroy anti-aircraft systems and heavy weapons captured by Islamic State in Palmyra, launching multiple airstrikes against the terror group's positions around the ancient Syrian city.

December 16, 2016