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Byline: Joby Warrick WASHINGTON - 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 [...]

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

Byline: Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet WASHINGTON - 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 [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick and 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. [...]

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: Joby Warrick During the same week that CIA Director Mike Pompeo flew to Pyongyang for secret talks on ending North Korea's nuclear program, U.S. weapons experts were studying a [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet and 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 [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick During his last run for the presidency in 2012, Russian leader Vladimir Putin startled U.S. military experts with a mysterious pledge to develop novel kinds of weapons [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick and Julie Vitkovskaya South Korean officials announced Tuesday that North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States on curbing its missile and nuclear weapons [...]

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 and 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 [...]

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 WASHINGTON - 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 [...]

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: Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick The woman's secret flight from the caliphate took place more than six months ago, aided by a smuggler who helped her sneak across the [...]

Byline: Greg Jaffe and Joby Warrick The brazen attack on worshipers at an Egyptian mosque early Friday showed the ability of the Islamic State's regional affiliates to inflict death and [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick In Stockholm, the perpetrator was an Uzbek immigrant who careened down a busy shopping street in a hijacked beer truck, hitting 19 pedestrians before crashing his vehicle [...]

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: Tamer El-Ghobashy, Joby Warrick and Mustafa Salim IRBIL, Iraq - Iraqi security forces have freed most of northern Iraq from the grip of the Islamic State. But U.S. and [...]

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: David Filipov and Joby Warrick ASTANA, Kazakhstan - Arms control advocates Tuesday celebrated the opening of an internationally supported repository for nuclear reactor fuel that its backers believe will [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick A few weeks before Thursday's attack in Barcelona, the Islamic State's main online magazine posted an illustrated article with advice on acquiring a special kind of truck [...]

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

Byline: Ellen Nakashima, , Anna Fifield and 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 [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick and 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 [...]

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

Byline: Joby Warrick Four months before its July 4 missile test, North Korea offered the world a rare technical preview of its latest missile engine, one said to be capable [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick In a case with a thousand plot twists, there has been but one constant in the murder investigation of Kim Jong Nam: Nothing is ever what it [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick The North Korean missile that soared high above the Sea of Japan early Monday was hailed by state-run television as a 'shining success.' But to U.S. officials, [...]

Byline: Sudarsan Raghavan and Joby Warrick DOHA, Qatar - The preacher at the center of Qatar's worst-ever diplomatic crisis is a raspy 91-year-old who wears spectacles and no longer stands [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. When the audio recording [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom touted by President Donald Trump as a key ally in the fight against the Islamic State, has helped block a Trump administration [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick, Souad Mekhennet and Liz Sly BRUSSELS - Ahmed Abu Fouad was vacationing with his children two years ago when he got word that his young wife had [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick When North Korea launched its Kwangmyongsong-4 satellite into space in February last year, officials heralded the event as a birthday gift for dead leader Kim Jong Il. [...]

Byline: Souad Mekhennet and Joby Warrick The men who built the secret bomb factory had been clever - suspiciously so, Bahraini investigators thought, for a gang known mostly for lobbing [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick On his way to planting an explosive in a Manhattan alley last September, suspected bombmaker Ahmad Rahimi stumbled into a deep hole in the U.S. system of [...]

Byline: Joby Warrick On the day of North Korea's first atomic test in 2006, aides to President George W. Bush began phoning foreign capitals to reassure allies startled by Pyongyang's [...]

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 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: 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: 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 [...]