Joby Warrick
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 06:33
The Islamic State is facing an unprecedented cash crunch in its home territory, U.S. counterterrorism officials say, as months of strikes on oil facilities and financial institutions take a deepening toll on the group’s ability to pay its fighters or carry out operations.
Friday, December 6, 2013 - 06:17
If all goes according to plan, the bulk of Syria’s chemical weapons stocks could be destroyed early next year inside the specially modified hold of a U.S. ship somewhere at sea, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:05
A bipartisan juggernaut of senior senators is spending the remaining week of the Thanksgiving recess forging agreement on a new sanctions bill that the senators hope to pass before breaking again for Christmas.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 07:28
The plan accepted by Iran on Sunday would accomplish something that U.S. governments have sought in vain for more than a decade: A pause, at least, in Iran’s inexorable march to a nuclear-weapons capability.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 07:43
A bipartisan group of senators emerged from a two-hour White House meeting saying there would likely be no vote this week on proposed new sanctions targeting Iran’s oil industry.
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 07:33
The agency in charge of destroying Syria’s chemical weapons says it is on track to eliminate the entire stockpile next year, but for one hitch: It hasn’t yet found a place to do the actual destruction.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 12:14
The memorials for dead fighters are but one manifestation of an explosion in the use of social media by Islamists since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013 - 09:30
But a European diplomat familiar with the inspection effort said the bulk of the equipment used by Syria to prepare its chemical munitions appears to have been “rendered inoperable.”
Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 12:04
Still, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf monarchies have joined Israelis in expressing growing dismay over U.S. suggestions that Iran could be allowed to retain a limited capability to enrich uranium.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:32
It was unclear whether Iran had broken new ground in its proposals or whether the sides had narrowed differences, but U.S. officials said the Iranian offer prompted a serious exchange that was continuing.