President Donald Trump has secretly signed a directive authorizing the use of military force against some Latin American drug cartels, according to a Friday report from The New York Times. “The order ...

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President Donald Trump signed an ominous executive order Monday that calls for a sweeping reorientation of the National Guard around domestic policing. Particularly alarming is Trump’s order that the ...

American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa’s most populous country, despite President ...

Mr. Simon held senior positions in the State Department and at the National Security Council. Mr. Stevenson served on the National Security Council staff during the Obama administration. By ordering ...

President Donald Trump has determined that the United States is in a "non-international armed conflict" with drug cartels, according to a notice the Pentagon sent to some members of Congress this week ...

A spokesman for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu says that threats of armed intervention from Donald Trump are based on ...