Carlo Muñoz

Syrian war is ‘over,’ country’s fate in Russia’s hands, Sen. Bob Corker says

The fate of Syria in the wake of the country's devastating six-year civil war will be dictated in Moscow, not Washington, reaffirming President Bashar Assad's regime's hold on power, the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee said Friday.

January 6, 2017

Killing Iran deal will create early crisis for incoming Trump White House: Sen. Bob Corker

President-elect Donald Trump should put off efforts to dismantle the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran during his first days in office, or risk having the issue consume his inaugural term in the White House, the top Senate foreign policy lawmaker warned Friday.

January 6, 2017

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

James Clapper calls for U.S. Information Agency ‘on steroids’ to counter Russian propaganda

The nation's top spy suggested Thursday that it would behoove the incoming administration to revive the defunct U.S. Information Agency, or USIA, as a bulwark against Moscow's powerful propaganda operation.

January 5, 2017

James Clapper: Congress to be briefed on intelligence review of Russia election hacks next week

A comprehensive review of Russia's efforts to undermine this year's contentious U.S. presidential election has been delivered to the White House, with congressional lawmakers to receive briefings on the classified report as soon as next week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday.

January 5, 2017

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

U.S.-led coalition reverses course, provides air support for Turkish troops in Syria

The U.S.-backed coalition in Syria for the first time is providing air support for a Turkish offensive against Islamic State positions, increasing the prospect that American commanders could allow Ankara to play a role in the coalition's drive against the terrorist group's de facto capital of Raqqa.

January 3, 2017

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

North Korea prepares for new round of nuclear weapons tests

North Korea is reportedly in the final stages for a new round of nuclear weapons tests, Pyongyang announced Sunday.

January 1, 2017

Syria cease-fire by Russia brings halt to fighting without U.S. participation

Russian-backed Syrian forces and anti-government rebels have laid down their arms as part of the latest cease-fire pact aimed at ending the six-year conflict in the war-torn nation.

December 29, 2016

Israel settlement controversy makes John Kerry, Benjamin Netanyahu clash

Secretary of State John F. Kerry launched a rhetorical broadside against Israel Wednesday, saying Washington could not "protect or defend" the country should Tel Aviv continue to balk at two-state peace plans with Palestinians.

December 28, 2016

Obama doctrine’s death knell sounds as Aleppo falls to Bashar Assad loyalists

The fall of the rebel-held Syrian city of Aleppo to Russian- and Iranian-backed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad sounds the death knell for the outgoing Obama administration's hands-off counterterrorism doctrine, analysts say.

December 25, 2016

Death toll surges in Afghanistan as war enters 16th year

Thousands of Afghan soldiers, civilians and Taliban fighters have been killed in one of the bloodiest fighting seasons of the 15-year U.S. campaign in the country.

December 25, 2016

Turkey amasses troops along Syrian border as march to Raqqa continues

Turkish tanks and heavy artillery are heading to the country's volatile border with the war-torn country of Syria Sunday, ordered by Ankara to reinforce the country's ongoing campaign against the Islamic State.

December 25, 2016

Russia weighs military plane crash as possible terrorist act

Government officials in Moscow are considering whether Sunday's crash of a military airliner en route to Russia's main military hub in Syria was an act of terrorism.

December 25, 2016

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

Berlin police say they’re not clear whether man detained is driver of fatal attack

The Christmas market attack in Berlin may have been the work of multiple terrorist operatives, according to German authorities who warned Tuesday that the deadly strike could be the first of several plotted against the city.

December 20, 2016

China agrees to return captured Navy drone to U.S.

Washington and Beijing have agreed to terms to return a Navy drone captured in the disputed waters of the South China Sea to the U.S., the Pentagon announced Saturday.

December 17, 2016

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

Pentagon demands return of Navy drone confiscated by China

The Defense Department is demanding the return of a U.S. Navy underwater drone captured by the Chinese military in the hotly contested waters of the South China Sea.

December 16, 2016