Intelligence officials believe North Korea will have a reliable intercontinental missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as early as next year, according to a U.S. report published Tuesday. The Washington Post said the confidential assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) trims two years ...
North Korea vowed Tuesday to strike the U.S. with a "powerful nuclear hammer" after CIA chief Mike Pompeo hinted last week that Washington was open to the possibility of regime change. The state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman, issued a ...
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Russia has no plans to leave Syria and will continue to try to meddle in U.S. affairs to "stick it to America." He reiterated his belief that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and described the U.S.-Russia ...
The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA's covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, two U.S. officials said, a move sought by Assad ally Russia. The U.S. decision, said one of the officials, ...
The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential race, the Washington Post reported Friday. The intelligence shocked the White House and put U.S. security chiefs on a top-secret crisis ...
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organization that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to ...
Beijing systematically dismantled CIA spying efforts in China beginning in 2010, killing or jailing more than a dozen covert sources, in a deep setback to U.S. intelligence there, The New York Times reported Sunday. The Times, quoting 10 current and former American officials who spoke ...
With his shoot-from-the-hip tweets targeting U.S. spies and alleged Oval Office leak of secrets to the Russians, President Donald Trump has damaged White House relations with American and allied intelligence agencies and put national security at risk, current and former officials said Tuesday. Diplomats, former ...
After arresting two American university instructors and laying out what it says was an elaborate, CIA-backed plot to assassinate Kim Jong Un, North Korea is claiming to be the victim of state-sponsored terrorism — from the White House. The assertion comes as the U.S. is ...
CIA director Mike Pompeo was in South Korea on Monday for an "internal meeting," the U.S. Embassy in Seoul confirmed, following reports of an unannounced visit as tensions mount over growing nuclear threats from the North. South Korea's largest daily, the Chosun Ilbo, reported Monday ...
The White House refused to say on Thursday whether it secretly fed intelligence reports to a top Republican investigating possible coordination between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. Fending off growing criticism, the administration invited lawmakers from both parties to view classified material it ...
New documents from WikiLeaks point to an apparent CIA program to hack Apple's iPhones and Mac computers using techniques that users couldn't disable by resetting their devices. Security experts say the exploits are plausible, but suggest they pose little threat to typical users. They say ...
