Dan De Luce

WASHINGTON — Israeli officials have grown increasingly concerned that Iran is expanding production of its ballistic missile program, which was damaged by Israeli military strikes earlier this year, and are preparing to brief President Donald Trump about options for attacking it again, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans and four former U.S. officials briefed on the plans

A pair of deadly attacks in Syria and Australia has shone a fresh spotlight on the Islamic State, the militant group.

Two nonprofit groups launched an ad campaign offering confidential advice to help U.S. troops who believe they may have received unlawful orders.

The Trump administration plans to hold the oil tanker it seized in waters near Venezuela at an American port in Texas but release the crew once the vessel docks, according to two U.S. officials.

A new national security document released by the White House late Thursday claimed without evidence that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure” and will be “unrecognizable in 20 years or less” due to immigration that has made European powers militarily weak.

Adm. Frank M. Bradley saw the two survivors of a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat as legitimate military targets based on the rules for the operation, which may have identified them as narco terrorists, a defense official told NBC News.

After the shooting of two National Guard members last week, U.S. Green Berets find themselves having to come to the defense of their former Afghan war partners.

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department Inspector General concluded in a report filed Tuesday that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared on a group Signal chat about a pending military operation in Yemen was considered classified, according to two people who have read the report

The U.S. has stopped processing all immigration requests related to Afghan nationals and is reexamining legal residents’ cases.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that authorities believe the suspect in the National Guard shooting was radicalized in the U.S. and that the asylum process for migrants would resume once the administration has dealt with a backlog of applications.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a member of a “Zero Unit,” an elite squad of Afghans who have faced hardships in the U.S. due to visa and employment issues.