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This is a list of all the News Categories in use. The News Main Page displays a subset of these based on the prevailing winds of newsiness, but you can always reach them all here and through some of the sidebar lists. Click on a category below for a listing of all its individual News Items.

China Launches a Fake News Campaign to Blame the U.S. for Coronavirus | Posted : Mon, 03/16/2020 - 6:36am
Trump’s Most Vital Mideast Allies Are Trending Fast Toward Tyranny | Posted : Mon, 03/09/2020 - 2:19am
China's Paranoid Party Line: America Is the Enemy and Needs to 'Butt Out' | Posted : Tue, 02/25/2020 - 5:08pm
As Trump Gives Up on ‘Endless Wars,' Russia, China, and Iran Move In | Posted : Tue, 02/18/2020 - 9:40am
Syria Hears the Death Rattle of the Arab Spring as Assad and Putin Forces Advance | Posted : Tue, 02/11/2020 - 3:39pm
North Korea's Secret Coronavirus Crisis is Crazy Scary | Posted : Sun, 02/09/2020 - 10:55pm
Stats Show Trump’s Afghanistan Surge Has Failed | Posted : Sat, 02/01/2020 - 8:03am
Trump Has a ‘Peace Plan,’ But His Mideast Policies May Be Bad News for Israel | Posted : Mon, 01/27/2020 - 8:42am
The Final Battle for Syria Has Begun | Posted : Sun, 01/26/2020 - 8:31pm
Meet the General Who Ran Soleimani’s Spies, Guns and Assassins | Posted : Fri, 01/24/2020 - 7:14am
Saudi Arabia Denies It Was Behind ‘Massive’ Hack of Bezos’ Phone | Posted : Wed, 01/22/2020 - 9:08am
Amid Iran Crisis, Russia’s Mideast Presence Just Keeps Growing | Posted : Sun, 01/12/2020 - 3:59pm
Russia to Iran: Don’t Admit Guilt—Blame the US Instead | Posted : Sun, 01/12/2020 - 8:05am
In Taiwan Elections, President Tsai Ing-wen Triumphed, and China’s Fake News Failed | Posted : Sat, 01/11/2020 - 11:53am
In Syria, as in Other ‘Frozen’ Conflicts, Putin Plays Peacemaker but Doesn’t Want Real Peace | Posted : Tue, 11/05/2019 - 1:01pm
To Shake Up Trump, Kim Jong Un Gets All Mystical—Then Launches Missiles | Posted : Sat, 11/02/2019 - 10:05am
Losing Vietnam Was a Blueprint for Losing Afghanistan | Posted : Mon, 10/28/2019 - 9:18am
Trump’s Betrayal of the Kurds? US Allies Will Get Over It, and Soon | Posted : Tue, 10/22/2019 - 10:18pm
Central America's Wars of the 80s Still Haunt US | Posted : Wed, 07/17/2019 - 12:31pm
Was a Russian Plot Behind the Venezuela Coup? | Posted : Mon, 05/06/2019 - 12:32pm
The Hezbollah Sleeper Agent Who Allegedly Ran Black Ops in America | Posted : Sun, 05/05/2019 - 8:50am
Putin Saved Assad. Now Will He Save Maduro? | Posted : Fri, 04/05/2019 - 12:11pm
The US Must Put a Ban on Google Helping China Develop a Global Digital Dictatorship | Posted : Wed, 03/27/2019 - 6:53pm
ISIS Chemical-Weapons Expert, Now a Prisoner in Baghdad, Speaks | Posted : Mon, 03/11/2019 - 9:41pm
The Pentagon’s Technology Chief Is an Utter F*cking Fool | Posted : Mon, 03/04/2019 - 9:57am
Here’s How Putin’s Russia Is Rebuilding the Iron Curtain | Posted : Mon, 02/25/2019 - 8:43pm
The Taliban Are Counting the Days Until Trump’s Afghan Pullout | Posted : Wed, 01/30/2019 - 1:57pm
Suicide Attack on US Troops in Syria Leaves a ‘State of Terror,’ Fears of Trump Exit Plans | Posted : Thu, 01/17/2019 - 8:43am
Trump Takes a War-Zone Victory Lap—and Trips | Posted : Fri, 12/28/2018 - 6:56am
The Sicario’s Tale, Part 1: Pablo Escobar’s Top Hitman Tells ‘How I Blew Up More Than 100 People’ | Posted : Wed, 12/26/2018 - 8:43pm
Israel’s Government Collapses Amid Corruption Charges and Trump’s Mideast Chaos | Posted : Tue, 12/25/2018 - 7:27am
‘Trump Deceived Himself’: Kim Jong Un Is Doing Exactly What He Promised to Do | Posted : Tue, 11/13/2018 - 7:27am
Russia’s Military Spies Are a Laughing Stock, But They’re Dangerous as Hell | Posted : Sun, 11/04/2018 - 11:05am
Don’t Count Out ISIS Just Yet | Posted : Fri, 10/05/2018 - 3:01pm
In Uganda, A Powerful Voice Challenges Africa's Rulers | Posted : Sat, 09/22/2018 - 6:32pm
Don't Punish A North Korean Hacker Just For Following Orders | Posted : Sun, 09/09/2018 - 7:36am
Trump Doubles Down on Indulgent—and Failing—North Korea Policy | Posted : Fri, 08/31/2018 - 8:05am
Chinese Cops Are Now Spying on American Soil | Posted : Wed, 08/15/2018 - 10:19am
OK. Talk to the Afghan Taliban—But What About? Where's This Supposed to Go? | Posted : Tue, 08/14/2018 - 8:23pm
‘Rocket Man’ in New York? Time for a New Trump-Kim Encounter | Posted : Sun, 08/12/2018 - 1:47am
China: We Might Help Assad with the War in Syria | Posted : Sat, 08/11/2018 - 5:39pm
The Day of the Drone Assassin Has Arrived | Posted : Thu, 08/09/2018 - 1:51pm
Murdered Russian Journalists In Africa Were Onto Something Dangerous for Putin | Posted : Sat, 08/04/2018 - 4:55pm
The Last of the Syrian Good-Guy Rebels | Posted : Sat, 08/04/2018 - 10:10am
Inside the Secret Talks to End America's Longest War | Posted : Thu, 08/02/2018 - 11:50am
The Next Prime Minister of Nuclear-Armed Pakistan Really Hates the US | Posted : Sat, 07/28/2018 - 3:48pm
New Russian Media Venture Wants to Wage ‘Information War’ in Washington, DC | Posted : Mon, 06/11/2018 - 8:54am
Marine Veteran Trains White Supremacists in Military Tactics | Posted : Mon, 06/11/2018 - 8:21am
To Ambush and Kill an American Green Beret, Al Shabaab Diverted a River | Posted : Sun, 06/10/2018 - 3:38pm
How That Journalist's Faked Murder Exposed Russia’s Gangsters and Spies | Posted : Wed, 06/06/2018 - 11:00am
How Cuba Helped Make Venezuela A Mafia State | Posted : Sun, 06/03/2018 - 2:32pm
How North Korea Has Played the United States for Seven Decades | Posted : Sun, 05/20/2018 - 8:21am
Iran Was the Big Winner in Iraq’s Elections—And Trump Helped | Posted : Fri, 05/18/2018 - 3:17am
We’re Forgetting Every Lesson From Iraq and Afghanistan | Posted : Mon, 05/14/2018 - 3:33pm
The Secret Islamist Society That Nurtured Jihadist Terrorism | Posted : Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:07am
Trump's Newest Syria Scam: Putting 'Arab Armies' in Charge | Posted : Mon, 04/23/2018 - 4:00pm
Trump Sent Pompeo to Meet Kim: Is North Korea Outmaneuvering Trump and China? | Posted : Wed, 04/18/2018 - 12:10pm
When It Comes to Fake News, People Aren’t As Dumb as You Think | Posted : Sun, 03/18/2018 - 8:44am
Can Anyone Stop Kim From Helping Assad Restock His Poison Arsenal? | Posted : Wed, 02/28/2018 - 7:11am
US Combat Advisers in Vietnam Knew the Score and Got Ignored | Posted : Fri, 02/02/2018 - 11:52pm
In State of the Union, Trump Goes Where Kim Jong Un Fears Most | Posted : Wed, 01/31/2018 - 7:26am
Taliban’s New Strategy: Attack the Cities | Posted : Thu, 01/25/2018 - 8:53pm
Turkey Closes in on US Allies in Syria - This Could Get Really Messy | Posted : Wed, 01/24/2018 - 2:29pm
CIA Boss Gives Latest Indication Trump Is Considering Preemptive Strike on North Korea | Posted : Wed, 01/24/2018 - 8:03am
Book Excerpt - "The Road Not Taken" (Edward Lansdale Biography) By Max Boot | Posted : Sat, 01/13/2018 - 12:14pm
McMaster Rushes to Save the Iran Deal That Trump Promised to Kill | Posted : Thu, 01/11/2018 - 2:39am
In Historic Korea Talks, Trump's Leading From the Sidelines | Posted : Mon, 01/08/2018 - 9:43am
Wanted Dead or Alive: The Frustrating, Failing Hunt for ISIS Leader Baghdadi | Posted : Sun, 01/07/2018 - 10:31am
The KGB Playbook for Turning Russians Worldwide Into Agents | Posted : Wed, 01/03/2018 - 1:49pm
Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed. | Posted : Sun, 11/12/2017 - 8:15pm
Game of Drones: Mexico’s Cartels Have a Deadly New Weapon | Posted : Sat, 11/11/2017 - 11:17pm
Car-Bomb Murders Terrify Ukraine’s Capital, and Many Suspect the Kremlin’s Behind Them | Posted : Fri, 10/27/2017 - 3:34pm
Secrets of the Black Stadium: In Raqqa, Inside ISIS’ House of Horror | Posted : Tue, 10/24/2017 - 8:46pm
How NATO Got Its Start in a Bavarian Castle in the Mountains of Brazil | Posted : Sat, 09/30/2017 - 9:13am
Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram | Posted : Thu, 09/28/2017 - 9:37am
The Purple Heart Recipient Hunted by the FBI (On LTC Jason Amerine) | Posted : Tue, 05/30/2017 - 9:01am
McCain: Trump Scandal Has Hit "Watergate Size" | Posted : Wed, 05/17/2017 - 7:17am
This Doctor Saved a Thousand ISIS Slaves | Posted : Tue, 05/16/2017 - 6:47am
Where Terrorism and the Ivory Trade Collide | Posted : Sun, 05/14/2017 - 2:43am
Aboard the Battleship Leading the War on ISIS | Posted : Tue, 05/09/2017 - 5:02am
I Dug Up My Father’s WWII Guerrilla Past (Jedburgh) | Posted : Sun, 05/07/2017 - 8:27pm
Al Qaeda is Stronger Now Than When Bin Laden Was Killed | Posted : Sun, 05/07/2017 - 2:47pm
Administration Officials: Trump's Only Playing the Madman With North Korea | Posted : Sat, 04/29/2017 - 10:14am
As US and Uganda Troops go Home, Kony May Make a Murderous Comeback | Posted : Fri, 04/28/2017 - 10:41am
Pentagon Caught Off Guard by Team Trump’s Tough Talk on North Korea | Posted : Wed, 04/26/2017 - 12:35pm
Mexico’s Most Wanted Man Since El Chapo | Posted : Sat, 04/22/2017 - 2:47am
US Eavesdropping Program Goes Silent | Posted : Fri, 04/21/2017 - 8:37pm
Trump’s Got a Mega-Bomb Designed to Hit North Korea | Posted : Thu, 04/20/2017 - 4:57am
Jeff Sessions, John Kelly to Go to US-Mexico Border Together | Posted : Mon, 04/17/2017 - 11:29pm
A Rebellion Is Taking Shape in Venezuela | Posted : Mon, 04/17/2017 - 3:23pm
The Day the US Strikes North Korea | Posted : Sun, 04/16/2017 - 11:25am
Despite Bombings, Egypt’s Martyred Christian Church Celebrates Easter | Posted : Sun, 04/16/2017 - 11:23am
Behind North Korea’s Fizzled Missile: Has China Lost Control of Kim? | Posted : Sun, 04/16/2017 - 11:20am
The Iraqi Army’s Alamo: Standoff in Tikrit | Posted : Sun, 04/16/2017 - 11:08am