Joby Warrick

Hamas is known to have acquired underwater drones and other novel weapons with Iran’s technology. It hasn’t used them – yet.

Iran is ‘broadly complicit’ in supporting Palestinian militants, but no evidence seen of a direct role in slaughter, officials say.

Iran is ‘broadly complicit’ in supporting Palestinian militants, but no evidence seen of a direct role in slaughter, officials say.

China offered multiple countries help with covid-19 testing during the pandemic. The payoff for Beijing included access to the DNA of millions of people.

The Biden administration has pulled funding to DEEP VZN — a controversial program that sought to find and study 12,000 viruses in the wild.

Bill Richardson served in the Clinton administration and later traveled the globe on missions to free hostages and political prisoners.

The sarin-filled rockets that fell on Damascus in August 2013 killed over 1,400 people. A mountain of evidence implicating Syria’s government continues to grow.

In Central Asia, a hidden pipeline of illicit trade supplies Russia with technology, including Chinese drones and German electronics.

White House expresses alarm over deepening military ties between Moscow and Tehran.

Documents show new push by Moscow, Tehran and Damascus to oust U.S. forces from Syria, including through lethal explosive attacks.

Investigations show China is vulnerable to serious lab accidents, exposing problems that allowed deadly pathogens to escape in the past, and could well do so again.

A small shift in favor of the “lab leak” theory was prompted by new data and an A-list team of weapons-lab scientists.

After suffering online bullying as a boy, Anderson Lee Aldrich altered his identity, documents confirm.

The previous incident raises questions over whether law-enforcement officials were aware of warning signs that might have led to a block on the suspect acquiring weapons.

Moscow and Tehran have agreed on a plan to assemble Iranian-designed weapons on Russian soil.

The increased flow of weapons could help offset steep Russian weapons losses and provide precision-guided munitions like those used in strikes in Ukraine last week.

The technology is expected to greatly enhance Tehran’s ability to spy on military targets across the Middle East.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian-born physician, took over as leader of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden. He was killed in a U.S. strike.

Officials describe a crash effort to build an arsenal of chemical and biological weapons.

Iran to send hundreds of drones to Russia for use in Ukraine, U.S. says - The Washington Post