Michael Wilner

“We are not ceasing our effort to get him, find him, and bring him home.” -- Joe Biden

Austin Tice’s mother said the U.S. government has a “strategy” to bring him home.

Ten years after Austin Tice disappeared in Syria, a sprawling, multinational, and often halting effort to get him back is showing signs of revival.

The United States knows “with certainty” that Syria has held Austin Tice, a reporter missing there since 2012, and is asking for its help bringing him home, President Joe Biden said.

The CIA is offering travel tips to Americans ahead of Memorial Day, borrowing from best practices of officers stationed abroad as summer travel picks up and coronavirus restrictions ease.

Iran’s attempts to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are real and ongoing, his successor, Antony Blinken, told Congress on Tuesday.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to worldwide condemnation and a cascade of momentous actions: the seizure of oligarchs’ yachts, the freezing of bank accounts, a flood of Ukrainian expatriates returning to their homeland to fight and a precipitous plunge in the ruble.

In far west Ukraine near the border with Poland, at an Allied training center, there is a watering hole known as the “Swamp” — a small piece of home for roughly 150 members of the Florida Army National Guard who are gearing the Ukrainian military to protect itself.

CIA officials say they are boosting recruitment of Mandarin speakers, scientists and engineers as competition with China intensifies.

The same labs that carried out immune response tests for existing COVID-19 vaccines are examining Walter Reed’s SpFN vaccine.