Thomas E. Ricks

U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded that the largest remaining concentrations of Al Qaeda fighters are in western Pakistan, rather than in Afghanistan, but Pakistan has resisted U.S. pressure to launch...

The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt...

During fighting this month between U.S. troops and Al Qaeda forces, Predator drone aircraft gave generals and civilian leaders in Washington something they had never seen before: a continuous live...

The two U.S. commanders overseeing the no-fly zones in Iraq have recommended a sharp reduction in the number of patrols flown by American and British pilots, mainly because of the...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to unveil broad changes in U.S. military strategy, including the formal abandonment of the "two major war" yardstick that for a decade has been...

The crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft that killed four Marines here in December was caused by a design flaw that had been known for months but went largely uncorrected,...