National Security

After questions from The Intercept, U.S. Southern Command updated its count of civilians killed in boat strikes to 123.

Far-right Sen. Josh Hawley joined four other Republicans to advance a war powers resolution in a symbolic rebuke to Trump.

The Coast Guard called off its search for people who jumped into the sea after watching the U.S. military destroy another ship.

Americans usually rally ’round the flag for a new war, but polls show Trump’s attack on Venezuela is deeply unpopular.

President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

“It bears an unsettling resemblance to the occupation of Iraq, where promises of liberation quickly gave way to years of insurgency.”

U.S. forces attacked Caracas and multiple states in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.

The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback.

“They have a big plant or a big facility where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. We hit them very hard.”