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House of Representatives Orders Donald Trump to Stop Backing Saudi-led War in Yemen, Paving the Way for Decisive Senate
What Happened in Douma? Searching for Facts in the Fog of Syria’s Propaganda War
Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project
Elliott Abrams, Trump’s Pick to Bring “Democracy” to Venezuela, Has Spent His Life Crushing Democracy
There’s a Better Battlefield for the War Against Trump’s Lies: the Courts
Roger Stone Made His Name as a Dirty Trickster, But the Trump-Russia Coverup May Finally Bring Him Down
Guantanamo Prisoner Says Judge Used Pro-Government Rulings to Curry Favor With the Justice Department
ISIS Fighters in Syria Are Trying to Push into Iraq, Where U.S.-Backed Forces Can’t Get Along With Militias Supported by
Why Doesn’t Donald Trump’s Cozy Relationship With Vladimir Putin Worry His Supporters? Jefferson Davis’s Treason Case Holds
John Bolton Wants to Bomb Iran — and He May Get What He Wants
Mike Pompeo Lied About the U.S. and the Middle East. Here’s the Truth.
Defense Department Abruptly Stopped Releasing Key Details on Strikes in War Against ISIS
“We Want to Survive”: Afghans Warily Anticipate Trump’s Withdrawal of 7,000 U.S. Troops
See No Evil: Pentagon Issues Blanket Denial That It Knows Anything About Detainee Abuse in Yemen
U.S. Ramps Up Bombing of ISIS in Eastern Syria Following Trump Withdrawal Announcement
The FBI’s Interrogation of Reality Winner Was Like a Play — and Has Now Been Turned Into One
Seeing Is Believing: The Intercept’s 2018 Visual Journalism
The Double Games of Foes and Friends: The Intercept’s 2018 National Security Coverage
Keep Your Eyes on the Narcissist: Donald Trump’s Latest Antics Are Driven by Fear of Robert Mueller
Left-Wing Leaders in Spain Condemn the War in Yemen, but Keep Up Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
Despite Assurances From Trump, the U.S. Battle Against ISIS in Eastern Syria Is Far From Over
Pentagon Says 35 Killed in Trump’s First Yemen Raid — More Than Twice as Many as Previously Reported
Israel Tampered With Video of Strike That Killed Two Palestinian Boys, Investigators Say
Sen. Tom Cotton Is Trying to Cripple a Bill to End U.S. Support for the War in Yemen
Is There Anything Trump, Cohen, and Manafort Didn’t Lie About?
How George H.W. Bush Rode a Fake National Security Scandal to the Top of the CIA
Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be a Terrorist on Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It Works
U.S. Military Says It Has a “Light Footprint” in Africa. These Documents Show a Vast Network of Bases.