Ken Dilanian

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NSA reviewing official’s part-time private work

NSA reviewing official’s part-time private work

Ken Dilanian · October 17, 2014 9:08 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2014 file photo, provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens checking a damaged house that they say was targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria. The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a terror cell in Syria killed just one or two of the key militants, according to American intelligence officials who say the al-Qaida group is still believed to be plotting attacks against targets in the United States and Europe. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Officials: Strikes on terror cell don’t stop plots

Ken Dilanian · October 10, 2014 8:52 am

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2014 file photo, provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens checking a damaged house that they say was targeted by the coalition airstrikes, in the village of Kfar Derian, a base for the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State group, between the northern province of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria. The barrage of U.S. cruise missiles last month aimed at a terror cell in Syria killed just one or two of the key militants, according to American intelligence officials who say the al-Qaida group is still believed to be plotting attacks against targets in the United States and Europe. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN, File)

Strikes didn’t end threat from Syrian terror cell

Ken Dilanian · October 9, 2014 8:04 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Civilian casualty standard eased in Iraq, Syria

Ken Dilanian · October 1, 2014 8:23 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks about the street protests in Hong Kong during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama: US ‘underestimated’ Islamic State threat

Ken Dilanian · September 29, 2014 5:12 pm

In this Saturday, Sept. 27 2014 photo, provided by the anti-government activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrians walking amid the rubble of damaged houses following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)

Obama: ‘Contradictory’ Syria policy helps Assad

Ken Dilanian · September 29, 2014 7:49 am

FBI chief: Apple, Google phone encryption perilous

FBI chief: Apple, Google phone encryption perilous

Ken Dilanian · September 25, 2014 11:32 pm

US offers more nuanced take on Khorasan threat

US offers more nuanced take on Khorasan threat

Ken Dilanian · September 25, 2014 8:42 pm

National Security

US may have identified man in beheading videos

Ken Dilanian · September 25, 2014 7:25 pm

FBI director assumes Khorasan plots not disrupted

National Security

FBI director assumes Khorasan plots not disrupted

Ken Dilanian · September 25, 2014 6:32 pm

US sanctions foreign fighter facilitators

US sanctions foreign fighter facilitators

Ken Dilanian · September 24, 2014 7:54 pm

National Security

Obama opens a new front against al-Qaida

Ken Dilanian · September 23, 2014 11:12 pm