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A worker walks in front of a production hall after a recent Russian missile attack at DTEK's power plant in Ukraine, on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) ** FILE **

Security analysts say Russia reportedly preparing to strike Ukraine’s nuclear power plants

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian soldiers prepare to launch an Avenger UAV drone in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. ( AP Photo/Yevhen Titov) ** FILE **

Moscow relying on bad weather to counter Ukrainian drone activity

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A Tomahawk cruise missile is fired off the battleship USS Wisconsin toward a target in Iraq, in the Persian Gulf on Jan. 17, 1991. (AP Photo/John McCutcheon, File)

Putin ally says Poland air base becomes target if Trump sends Tomahawks to Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, gestures as he speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping via videoconference at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Analysts: Russian claims of economic strength don’t match evidence

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians gather near a building destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

Hamas wants Russia’s support, with role in postwar Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on buildings near the separating wall between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Hamas believes it can survive Israeli invasion of Rafah, says think tank

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces Col.-Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, right, and Roman Mashovets, deputy head of the Presidential Office, look at a map during their visit to the front line city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. A gloomy mood hangs over Ukraine’s soldiers nearly two years after Russia invaded their country. Ukrainian soldiers remain fiercely determined to win, despite a disappointing counteroffensive this summer and signs of wavering financial support from allies. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Artillery shortage in Ukraine could delay counteroffensive against Russia

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, June 8, 2023, Maj. Gen. Ivan Popov, the commander of the 58th Army, is seen in a photo at an undisclosed location. Popov said in a statement to his troops that he was dismissed after speaking out about the problems faced by his troops on the battlefield in Ukraine, a sign of new fissures in the Russian military command following a brief rebellion by mercenary chief Yevgney Prigozhin. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Moscow cracking down on insubordinate army generals

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on the sidelines of an informal meeting of the heads of ex-Soviet nations which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States at the State Russian Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Alexey Danichev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin ‘misleading’ in comments about Ukraine war negotiations

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

Islamic State said to be planning to spring fighters held in Syria and Iraq

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, March 30, 2014, file photo, Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

ISIS poised to return with ‘even more aggressive insurgency’: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In its latest efforts, the terror group Islamic State is using social media to recruit jihadis to its self-styled paradise on earth, hoping to lure trained professionals like doctors and builders to improve the stateless group's infrastructure in Iraq and Syria. (Associated Press)

Islamic State recruits Westerners with promise of Muslim utopia

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A halt in U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State positions in Tikrit is slowing a potential retaking of the larger city of Mosul from the terrorist army. (Associated Press)

Tikrit assault stalls as Obama withholds U.S. airstrikes to avoid Iran ties, analysts say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Two Jordanian men walk past graffiti depicting the flag of the Islamic State group with Arabic that reads, "There is only one God and Muhammad is his prophet," in the city of Ma'an, Jordan. (Associated Press)

Islamic State expands beyond Syria, Iraq as recruits create global network of terror cells

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

"U.S. policymakers refuse to accurately name the movement as radical Islam. We further choose not to define it nor explain its ideology, and most critical, we have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it," said retired Army Gen. John Keane. (Associated Press)

Obama lacks strategy to stop Islamic State expansion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syrian rebels rest during clashes with the nation's military troops in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 15, 2012. (Associated Press)

Woman who wrote WSJ op-ed cited during Syria hearing fired for lying

By Guy Taylor and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the semiofficial Iranian Fars News Agency, a Saegheh ground-to-sea missile is launched by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards during a maneuver at the eastern part of Strait of Hormuz, a strategic oil route in southern Iran, on Sunday, April 25, 2010. Iran's state television says the country has fired a series of missiles as part of an ongoing large-scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Mehdi Marizad)

Proxy war: A U.S. strike on Syria is a haymaker at Iran

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times