The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers.

The Bashar al-Assad regime’s indiscriminate air strikes have terrorized civilians for years. Now a small band of activist-entrepreneurs is building a sensor network that listens for warplanes and warns people when and where the bombs will fall.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution.

Rojava becomes the Spanish Civil War of modern times for a ragtag group of leftists revolutionaries.

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

One expert warns that policies advanced by the think tank could lead to military conflict with China.

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

A former US Army officer is now a general for a country accused of war crimes.

“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

And I fear what it has become.

A profile of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who “may be the only reliable voice of caution left in an administration inching closer to the brink.”

An Afghanistan love story.

A 4-year-old girl was the sole survivor of a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Then she disappeared.

Why are we still involved?

Finland shares an 833-mile border with an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor––Russia. North of the Arctic Circle, the author trained with the elite soldiers who will be on the front lines if this cold feud ever gets hot.

Steve Acheson finds a different form of protest.

A Marine veteran of the Iraq War on battle and faith.