Warren P. Strobel –

Captives held by Islamic State prove tough quandary for Obama

June 24, 2019 at 10:52 p.m.

After Islamic State's beheading of journalist James Foley, President Barack Obama's administration is making little headway in efforts to secure the release of three other Americans held by the insurgent...

Post-Snowden, the NSA’s future rests on Admiral Rogers’ shoulders

August 25, 2021 at 12:05 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As U.S. National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers seeks to repair the damage to the agency caused by leaks about its electronic spying programs, the abuses of...

U.S. special forces struggle with record suicides: admiral

August 24, 2021 at 11:06 p.m.

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Suicides among U.S. special operations forces, including elite Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, are at record levels, a U.S. military official said on Thursday, citing the...

U.S. agencies back DigitalGlobe bid to sell sharper images

December 23, 2018 at 5:27 p.m.

TAMPA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. intelligence community has thrown its support behind a bid by commercial space imagery provider DigitalGlobe Inc to sell higher resolution images from its satellites, the...

After success on Iran, U.S. Treasury’s sanctions team faces new challenges

May 23, 2019 at 4:34 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This is what the modern American war room looks like: the clocks on the wall show the times in Kabul, Tehran and Bogota. The faces around the...

White House tried to mediate dispute between Senate panel, CIA

May 23, 2019 at 4:31 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House tried to mediate between the CIA and the Senate panel that oversees it after both sides alleged they were spied on by the other...

Obama, wary of foreign crises, faces East-West standoff in Ukraine

September 8, 2018 at 10:11 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Russia deepened its military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea region on Saturday, ignoring Barack Obama's stern warning, the U.S. president faced a critical test of whether Washington...

Chemical weapons deal strengthened Assad: U.S. intelligence chief

August 24, 2021 at 8:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last year's agreement to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons left President Bashar al-Assad in a strengthened position, and there appears little chance rebels will soon force him from...

U.S. and Russia say Syria aid access and local ceasefire possible

August 24, 2021 at 7:18 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Syria's government and some rebels may be willing to permit humanitarian aid to flow, enforce local ceasefires and take other confidence-building measures in the nearly three-year-old civil...

White House says no plans to split NSA, Cyber Command

May 23, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration said on Friday it will keep one person in charge of both the National Security Agency spy agency and the military's Cyber Command,...

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