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Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.

There’s a reason Flynn concealed the nature of his call to the Russian ambassador.

She was a longtime member of the Washington Chorus, which won a Grammy Award in 2000.

While the Mueller investigation was still ongoing, the person whose opinion I was most interested in hearing when it was all over was former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden. Based on my prior...

The president’s strategy of publicly downplaying the threat the virus poses to the U.S. was undermined Monday as the Dow Jones industrial average shed more than 1,000 points.

We do not make the world safer by abandoning our commitment to basic freedoms and human rights.

Sadly, the president’s fecklessness in the proxy war with Russia is emblematic of his larger foreign policy.

Until now, Trump had exempted the military from his belligerent, government-by-tweet interference.

After the pandemic subsides, the U.S. must learn from its mistakes.

The Republican-led intelligence committee provides damning evidence against the Trump campaign and Russia.

Columnist David Ignatius and opinions editor Karen Attiah share Polk Award for coverage of colleague’s death.

The Pentagon blamed Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani for American deaths and said the strike was intended to head off future Iranian attacks.

The president’s counterpunches just aren’t landing.

A transactional president isn't a natural partner for the military.

Democrats eked out a victory there in 2016, but they can look beyond the state’s borders to the White House with their senator.

The former national security adviser indicts Trump’s foreign policy, while painting himself as a hero.

Hunter Biden already admitted to making a mistake during a time of personal turmoil.

Sue Gordon, a career intelligence official, will resign. Joseph Maguire, the counterterrorism chief, will become acting intelligence director. 

Trump is about raw power — the kind that comes from ignoring the rule of law.

The U.S. cannot just “move on” from Vladimir Putin’s dangerous behavior.

Abuse of the armed forces was the tipping point.

Trump witholding Ukraine’s military aid is especially troubling.

Milley’s efforts took him into dangerous constitutional terrain that no soldier should have to patrol, edging close to violating the sacrosanct principle ­of civilian control of the military.

With Mexican democracy under threat, Xóchitl Gálvez’s centrist populism is energizing the opposition. You can see why the establishment seems worried about her.

Veterans of the war call Trump’s retreat a “disgrace” to America and the soldiers who serve this country.

Communist Party chiefs scramble to placate a public furious over authorities’ treatment of the young ophthalmologist who tried to raise the alarm about the outbreak.

On October 2, 2018, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. It would be the last time he was seen alive. What has been done in the aftermath?

John Bolton’s memoir points to further White House rot.

Trump can make as many denials as he wants, but the trail of evidence is long.

More information is coming to light about Trump’s attempt to play politics in Ukraine.

“If ethnic cleansing happens in our area, or they kill Kurds and bring Arabs in, this will be the U.S.’s responsibility,” says the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces.

The real question is whether the national security adviser has been trying to hide pre-inauguration communications.

And three other burning questions America deserves answers to.

Buttigieg and Klobuchar both propose significant change in achievable ways.

The president’s longtime confidant was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering. His sentencing recommendation has prompted concerns over whether the White House has interfered in Justice...

His ignorance about Russia's history in Afghanistan is a liability.

Behind the vortex of rage and lawlessness in the royal court that ultimately sucked in the Post Global Opinions columnist.

Robert S. Mueller III’s filings and other documents suggest a pattern of collusion, money laundering and coverup.

The latest evidence of his disdain for accountability was his ouster of the State Department IG.

Intrusive questions are the essence of good oversight. Congress needs to do its job, urgently.

Much can still happen before Jan. 6.

The former president is full of bluster, but the Mar-a-Lago search may pose a serious legal threat to him.

In the letter, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that new emails had surfaced in a case unrelated to the closed investigation into whether Hillary Clinton or her aides had mishandled classi...

Thomas Rid explains how journalists and citizens amplified Moscow’s 2016 efforts.

The cascade of bad events could get worse if action isn’t taken quickly.

Trump’s refusal to confront the Kremlin over its barely-disguised espionage only emboldens the Russian ruler further.

If Putin believes Ukrainians share his conviction that Russia and Ukraine are a single nation, he is wildly mistaken.

He still wants intelligence officials to deliver political wins for him.

A Kurdish commander says the sudden U.S. pullout “was something we never expected.”

The move to stop oral briefings of Congress about election interference is a dangerous development.

Any hopes for a modern Saudi Arabia must include more liberal freedoms of the press.

Halting a criminal investigation could interfere with making a damage assessment, national security lawyers say.

Success in modern warfare increasingly involves the ability to intercept, jam and alter opponents' communications. Russia expected to dominate this realm, but it has stumbled instead.

Civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh are threatened by starvation as Azerbaijan blocks delivery of food, fuel, medicine and other essential supplies from Armenia.

The party has lost any claim it ever had at being the U.S. military’s political defender.

Maybe it’s just an anomaly – or maybe it’s something worse

Other presidents have tried to limit international corruption. Now it's President Biden's turn.

The president is trying to distract the country from the Russia investigation. That can backfire.