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Byline: Joby Warrick;Ellen Nakashima On May 9, shipping traffic at Iran's bustling Shahid Rajaee port terminal came to an abrupt and inexplicable halt. Computers that regulate the flow of vessels, [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Ellen Nakashima Iran is being linked to an attempted cyberattack last month that authorities believe was aimed at disrupting water supplies in at least two locations in Israel [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Ellen Nakashima;Shane Harris;Anna Fifield For nearly a decade, a team of scientists from Wuhan, China, crisscrossed southern Asia in a high-stakes search for bats and the strange diseases [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Erin Cunningham;Souad Mekhennet Last week, a powerful Iranian general went on state-run television to make an extraordinary claim: His elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, possessed a [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick An international watchdog on Wednesday firmly linked Syria's government to deadly sarin and chlorine attacks on a rebel town in 2017, bolstering the case that President Bashar [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick In early 2003, a group of Iranian scientists began scouring the country on a secret quest for a place to dig an unusual tunnel. They searched Iran's [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Iran is dramatically ramping up production of enriched uranium in the wake of the Trump administration's decision to abandon the 2015 nuclear deal, the U.N. nuclear watchdog [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette;Joby Warrick NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, at war with each other in the Middle East, are working together to take control [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette;Joby Warrick NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania -- Groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, at war with each other in the Middle East, are working together to take control [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet;Joby Warrick When the Islamic State finally broke its silence about the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it did so with a 1,200-word communique that included Koranic verses, [...]

Byline: Sarah Dadouch;Asser Khattab;Joby Warrick BEIRUT -- The Islamic State militant group Thursday announced the successor to its former leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who U.S. officials said killed himself by [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Ellen Nakashima;Dan Lamothe U.S. commandos zeroed in on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's final hideout with the help of an extraordinarily well-placed informant, an Islamic State operative who facilitated the [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, then an [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Sudarsan Raghavan Internal Egyptian government documents show officials in Cairo scrambling to do damage control after U.S. spy agencies uncovered an alleged scheme to smuggle North Korean military [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Souad Mekhennet The Islamic State is racing to capitalize on the deteriorating security situation in northern Syria, stepping up attacks on prisons as well as on the now-weakened [...]

Byline: Joby WarrickIRBIL, Iraq -- In the weeks after his city fell to the Islamic State, Iraqi scientist Suleiman al-Afari sat in his deserted government office and waited for the [...]

Byline: Joby WarrickIRBIL, Iraq -- More than a year after the collapse of its self-declared caliphate, the Islamic State is sitting on a mountain of stolen cash and gold that [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Souad MekhennetIRBIL, Iraq -- Late last month, a column of Islamic State fighters in armored vehicles and on motorcycles thundered into eastern Syria to mount an unexpectedly fierce [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Anton TroianovskiSALISBURY, England -- The initial plan was a Cold War classic -- brutal yet simple. Two Russian agents would slip onto the property of a turncoat spy [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Loveday Morris;Souad Mekhennet When he began his self-imposed exile to Washington last year, Jamal Khashoggi described himself simply as one 'independent journalist using his pen for the good [...]

Byline: Shane Harris;Souad Mekhennet;Joby Warrick On the evening of July 1, police in Germany surrounded the rented van of an Iranian diplomat after he pulled over at a gas station [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick THE HAGUE -- The campaign started with the cyber equivalent of a massive airstrike: law-enforcement agencies from eight countries, moving in unison to smash two of the [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima;Joby Warrick U.S. spy agencies are seeing signs that North Korea is constructing new missiles at a factory that produced the country's first intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick TEL AVIV -- New details from a trove of Iranian nuclear documents stolen by Israeli spies early this year show that Tehran obtained explicit weapons-design information from [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung;Joby Warrick As President Trump began a six-day trip to Europe, due to culminate Monday in a meeting with Russian President Vladi -mir Putin, Putin was having some [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima;Joby Warrick U.S. intelligence officials, citing newly obtained evidence, have concluded that North Korea does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile, and instead is considering ways [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The warheads -- at least 20 in number, and perhaps as many as 60 -- remain for now in their bunkers, somewhere in the rugged hills north [...]

Byline: Anna Fifield;Joby Warrick SEOUL -- A team of U.S. officials crossed into North Korea on Sunday for talks to prepare for a summit between President Trump and Kim Jong [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick North Korea's apparent offer to discuss the 'complete denuclearization' of the Korean Peninsula was met with skepticism by lawmakers and security experts in Washington, even as many [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Souad Mekhennet The cancellation of next month's U.S.-North Korea summit has delayed a confrontation over key elements of Pyongyang's advanced weapons programs, including what some Western intelligence officials [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Souad Mekhennet His self-declared caliphate was in ruins when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi summoned some of his top aides to a meeting in eastern Syria last year. The Islamic [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick VIENNA -- In the three years since the start of the Iran nuclear agreement, a cluster of buildings near the Austrian capital has served as an unblinking [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick One morning last April, in the 16th month of a grueling hostage negotiation, a top Qatari diplomat sent a text message to his boss to complain about [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet;Joby Warrick [Update: This story has been revised to include the responses of Bank Melli and Bank Saderat, the two Iranian financial institutions that owned interests in Future [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet;Joby Warrick MANAMA, Bahrain -- Investigators have uncovered evidence of a multibillion-dollar corruption scheme by a Persian Gulf bank that secretly helped Iran evade sanctions for more than [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Julie Vitkovskaya On Thursday, South Korea's national security adviser announced that President Trump is willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by the end of May. [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The rusting seaport called Kholmsk is one of the sleepiest harbors in Russia's Far East, a place that sees more full moons than coal ships in a [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Anna Fifield North Korea appears to have stepped up its covert assistance to a Syrian government agency responsible for producing that country's chemical weapons and advanced missiles, a [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The powerful intercontinental missile tested by North Korea late last year is 'highly likely' to have been built with foreign blueprints or parts, according to a new [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The man with the Islamic State scarf appears to be playing a kind of jihadist peekaboo. In the photo, he hides his features behind the terrorist group's [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick A few months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of American investors and Russian scientists struck a deal to begin marketing one of the [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Just before leaving his Defense Department job two months ago, intelligence officer Luis Elizondo quietly arranged to secure the release of three of the most unusual videos [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Five months before North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006, U.S. intelligence officials sent a report to Congress warning that secret work also was underway on a [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Russian smugglers are scurrying to the aid of North Korea with shipments of petroleum and other vital supplies that could help that country weather harsh new economic [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The device that shook the mountains over the Punggye-ri test site on Sunday represented a quantum leap for North Korea's nuclear capability, producing an explosion at least [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Ellen Nakashima;Anna Fifield North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima;Anna Fifield;Joby Warrick North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Loveday Morris On the day the Islamic State overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick;Souad Mekhennet The would-be terrorist who tried to blow up Brussels's main transit hub last month had plenty of ambition but no discernible talent. His homemade bomb, a [...]