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

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Mike Pompeo says Nicolas Maduro’s days in power are numbered

The United States remains committed to backing Venezuela's opposition movement and ousting President Nicolas Maduro, with the Trump White House's top diplomat saying Sunday that the socialist leader's days in power are numbered.

February 24, 2019
Army Green Berets are trained for lethal close-quarter combat operations and small-team interoperability, but they will need digital skills for the future of warfare. (U.S. Army)

Special ops mission shifts from terrorism to China, Russia

America's elite special operations forces are getting new marching orders as the Pentagon moves away from its post-9/11 focus on radical terrorist groups and trains its eye on big-power rivals such as China and Russia.

February 24, 2019
In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo, U.S. Army troops place additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP) ** FILE **

Hundreds more troops heading to U.S.-Mexico border

The Pentagon is planning to deploy hundreds more American military personnel to the southern border, in the wake of the Trump administration's announcement of a national emergency along the country's borderline with Mexico.

February 22, 2019
A worker removes t-shirts printed with portraits of U.S. President Donald Trump, right on shirt, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a custom t-shirt shop in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Hanoi is gearing up to host the second Trump-Kim summit scheduled for 27-28 February. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

Top House Democrats demand details of Trump North Korea outreach

The Democratic heads of the House intelligence, defense and foreign affairs panels committees issued a joint demand that the Trump White House reveal more of its interactions with North Korea and to explain why the president and U.S. intelligence agencies appear at odds over the threat posed by Pyongyang.

February 21, 2019
In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

House Dems probe White House handling of Saudi nuclear plan

Top House Democrats plan to investigate claims the Trump White House fast-tracked sensitive details on U.S. nuclear technologies to Saudi Arabia without notifying Congress of the exchanges -- a possible violation of federal law.

February 19, 2019
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, left, gestures duringg a debate with Republican challenger Corey Stewart, at the Virginia Bar Association debate at the Homestead in Hot Springs , Va., Saturday, July 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Battle looms over Pentagon money for border wall

Outcry from Democrats on Capitol Hill and some key U.S. defense officials mounted Monday over the prospect that President Trump's emergency declaration will result in a raiding of certain Pentagon coffers to finance the construction of a border wall.

February 18, 2019
FILE - In this undated file photo distributed on Sept. 16, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends what was said to be the test launch of an intermediate range Hwasong-12 missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. U.S President Donald Trump announced Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 during his State of the Union address that he intends to meet Kim on Feb. 27-28, 2019 in Vietnam, saying that although much work remains to be done toward peace on the Korean Peninsula, his relationship with Kim is a good one. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Robert Abrams warns Kim Jong-un nuclear advance unchecked

The top U.S. general on the Korean Peninsula told lawmakers Tuesday that North Korea's efforts to pursue advanced military capabilities continues unchecked, despite President Trump's diplomatic outreach to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

February 12, 2019
In this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019 image from video provided by Hawar News Agency, ANHA, an online Kurdish news service, civilians flee fighting near Baghouz, Syria. Fierce fighting was underway Monday between U.S.-backed Syrian forces and the Islamic State group around the extremists' last foothold in eastern Syria. The capture of the IS-held village of Baghouz and nearby areas would mark the end of a four-year global war to end IS' territorial hold over large parts of Syria and Iraq, where the group established its self-proclaimed "caliphate" in 2014. (ANHA via AP) **FILE**

Fierce fighting over last Islamic State foothold in Syria

American warplanes and U.S.-backed Syrian ground forces kicked off a long-awaited assault on the Islamic State's final stronghold in the country, in what White House officials and coalition commanders anticipate will mark the end of the terror group's four-year campaign in the Middle East.

February 11, 2019
Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad speaks on the prospects for peace, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

U.S., Taliban see roadmap for peace in Afghanistan

A whirlwind round of negotiations between Washington and the Taliban have brought Afghanistan closer to the brink of peace than ever before, but a number of diplomatic hurdles could derail the American-led effort to end the U.S. conflict in Southwest Asia.

February 10, 2019
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, centre, talks to counterparts during an EU-Arab League ministerial meeting at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Saudi Arabia weapon sales ban would only embolden Iran, top diplomat says

Renewed congressional efforts by to ban all U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia, in response to the kingdom's brutal tactics in Yemen and its role in the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, only embolden Iran and its terror proxies in the region, a top Saudi diplomat said Sunday.

February 10, 2019
n this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, speaks at The Economic Club of Washington's Milestone Celebration in Washington. An attorney for the head of the National Enquirer’s parent company says the tabloid didn’t commit extortion or blackmail by threatening to publish Bezos’ explicit photos. Elkan Abramowitz represents American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker. He defended the tabloid’s practice as a “negotiation” in an interview Sunday, with ABC News.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Saudi Arabia denies Jeff Bezos leak role

Saudi Arabia is denying any role in recent leaks of personal text messages and photographs of Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos to American Media Incorporated, which threatened to publish the damaging materials in the National Inquirer.

February 10, 2019
A man shout shouts "Welcome humanitarian aid" as he passes a line of Venezuelan army soldiers and National Guard officers that block the main access to the Tienditas International Bridge that links Colombia and Venezuela, near Urena, Venezuela, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. Trucks carrying U.S. humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela arrived Thursday at the Colombian border, where opposition leaders vowed to bring them into their troubled nation despite objections from embattled President Nicolas Maduro. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Elliott Abrams: Visas of Nicolas Maduro regime restricted

The Trump administration will impose new visa restrictions on top officials of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as President Trump's new envoy to the crisis in Caracas said the time for a negotiated compromise with the socialist Maduro regime had passed.

February 7, 2019
President Trump has cited the large American contingent deployed at the Al-Asad air base in western Iraq, where he visited the day after Christmas, as one key reason the U.S. can afford to pull out 2,000 troops battling the Islamic State in Syria. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Trump remarks cloud talks on new U.S. troop deal with Iraq

The U.S. and Iraq opened talks Wednesday on a new agreement to allow U.S. forces to remain in the country, just days after Mr. Trump angered top officials in Baghdad by outlining plans to keep a military footprint in Iraq indefinitely to "watch" neighboring Iran and prevent a resurgence of terror groups such as Islamic State.

February 6, 2019
President Donald Trump speaks at the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS meeting at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Donald Trump: Syria pullout will not spark ISIS resurgence

President Trump predicted Wednesday that the Islamic State's "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria will be "100 percent" liberated within days, while telling a major gathering of allies at the State Department that his planned pullout of U.S. forces from Syria will not undercut the mission of wiping out the terrorist group's surviving assets.

February 6, 2019