Ben Watson is news editor for Defense One. He previously worked for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Here and Now” in Washington, D.C. Watson served for five years in the U.S. Army, where he was an award-winning combat cameraman and media advisor for southern Afghanistan’s special operations command during the 2010-11 surge.
The Pentagon is considering deploying more anti-missile batteries and F-22s to the Middle East amid the rising tensions with Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The department is also …
“War” is suddenly a common word among U.S. and Iranian diplomats, five days after explosions at Saudi refineries halved the country’s oil output. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday …
White House officials say Saturday’s refinery attacks on Saudi Arabia were launched from Iran, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and America’s French allies want to see more intelligence before …
Global oil prices are experiencing their biggest price surge since 1991 after attacks on the world’s largest oil refinery in Saudi Arabia in the early morning of Saturday. “Iran-allied Houthi …
The White House’s top envoy for Afghan peace talks has been ordered to testify at an open hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee next Thursday, Democratic Chairman Rep. Eliot Engel of New …
Israel’s “war between the wars.” The Wall Street Journal’s Felicia Schwartz traveled to Avivim in northern Israel to report that Tel Aviv is using “high-tech surveillance” and outright deception — …
We now have a system and location for Kim Jong-un’s latest missile tests, conducted early Tuesday at Kaechon Air Base, in west-central North Korea. As for the system, the Associated Press uses …
After President Trump declared U.S. talks with the Taliban “dead” on Monday, the commander of CENTCOM told Reuters that the U.S. military is likely to ramp up operations against Taliban fighters …
The White House’s peace plan for Afghanistan appears to have fallen apart this weekend, a development Reuters calls “a stunning reversal” and the Associated Press describes as “the latest example …
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