National Security

Michael McKinley (right), the former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, talked behind closed doors with House investigators about the Ukraine affair and why he resigned from his post.

READ: Ex-State Department Adviser Michael McKinley's Testimony To Congress

1:25pm November 04, 2019

by NPR Staff

The former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked behind closed doors with House investigators about the Ukraine affair and why he resigned from his post.

Then-national security adviser John Bolton speaks during a media conference in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Aug. 28, 2018. Bolton, a lifelong Russia hawk, has been described as objecting to Trump's Ukraine policy: Holding up military assistance intend

Administration Insiders Who Waved A Red Flag In The Ukraine Affair

10:08am November 04, 2019

by Philip Ewing

It was an intelligence community whistleblower who brought the matter to the attention of Congress. But insiders also recorded objections about what took place within the administration.

National Security Council Lawyers To Testify In Trump Impeachment Inquiry

5:24pm November 03, 2019

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with national security law expert, Harold Koh, about the upcoming testimony of two lawyers from the National Security Council in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

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Norwegian Pvt. Ivan Sjoetun sits in the border post where Russian land can be seen out the window. The post is in the far northeast corner of Norway and offers a commanding view of this starkly beautiful area some 250 miles above the Arctic Circle.

In A Remote Arctic Outpost, Norway Keeps Watch On Russia's Military Buildup

8:41am November 03, 2019

by Jackie Northam

Warmer weather up north is opening up shipping lanes and new access to natural resources. It's also fueling a military buildup.

Closing The Open Skies

8:10am November 03, 2019

by David Welna

The Trump administration may be ready to bail out of the Open Skies treaty, which for 17 years has allowed the U.S. and Russia to surveil each other by taking aerial photos.

Department of Homeland official Chad Wolf speaks during a meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C. President Trump is set to pick wolf to lead DHS in an acting capacity.

White House To Name Chad Wolf As Acting Homeland Security Secretary

11:41pm November 01, 2019

by Brian Naylor

President Trump announced earlier this month that Kevin McAleenan was leaving the post. Trump is now set to turn to Wolf to lead the agency, according to sources briefed on the decision.

Trump Set To Pick His 5th Department Of Homeland Security Head

4:33pm November 01, 2019

by Franco Ordoñez

President Trump is set to pick his fifth head of the troubled Department of Homeland Security. Chad Wolf is currently serving in a lower level job at the agency.

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National

Twitter Struggling To Shut Down Bot And Impersonation Accounts Created By ISIS

4:33pm November 01, 2019

by Hannah Allam

ISIS launched 145 bot and "sockpuppet" accounts across Twitter in a coordinated campaign in the wake of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death. Twitter is trying to stamp them out, but is struggling.

White House counsel Don McGahn in September. Lawyers for McGahn appeared in federal court on Thursday in a dispute over whether he will have to sit for questions from House investigators conducting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

Judge Pushes Back On Trump Lawyers Trying to Block Possible Impeachment Witnesses

10:58pm October 31, 2019

by Bobby Allyn

A federal judge in Washington was skeptical in the face of arguments that current and former Oval Office aides have "absolute immunity" from ever sitting for questions about interactions with Trump.

A convoy of U.S. military vehicles, arriving from northern Iraq, drives past an oil pump jack in the countryside of Syria's northeastern city of Qamishli on Oct. 26.

Opinion: Syria's Oil Output Is Low, But Here's Why It Matters

6:04pm October 31, 2019

What happens to the country's resources — once a revenue stream for ISIS — will be important not to world oil markets but to the future of Syria itself, write Roger Diwan and Daniel Yergin.