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Special Forces, past and present, came to Washington, DC, on Sunday to participate in the annual Rolling Thunder ride.

Green Berets with the Special Forces Brotherhood Motorcycle Club paid their respects to their fallen brothers at Arlington National Cemetery.

Pompeo said a newly-announced $8 billion in arms sales to Middle East allies would help protect their and America’s interests against Iran.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday delivered a major foreign policy speech at a veterans’ event that urged restraint in overseas military engagements.

Nadler threatened to go to court to get former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify in front of Congress, after he ignored a subpoena.

Former Navy SEAL Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), retired Green Beret Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), and Marine veteran Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will kick off a Republican effort on Wednesday to recruit more Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to Congress in 2020, according to people involved in the initiative.

Christopher Steele distributed his unverified “pee dossier” to the top levels of British intelligence months before Trump ever became aware of it.

A rocket was fired into Iraq’s capital of Baghdad on Sunday evening, landing less than a mile from the U.S. Embassy, according to a report.

Barr’s review of the origins of the Russia investigation is focused on intelligence gathering before the FBI opened its probe in July 2016.

A court filing shows Trump campaign officials considered reaching out to WikiLeaks only after the it published Podesta emails, not before. 

An anti-Trump super PAC called the Democratic Coalition is targeting Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Twitter for the second time this week.

Attorney General William Barr said in a recent interview that the answers he has gotten to why the government began spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 are “inadequate” and have raised more questions than before.

Gene Simmons, bassist and co-lead singer for the rock band KISS, made news when he visited the Pentagon on Thursday.

Senators from both sides of the aisle skewered State Department official Andrea Thompson at a hearing on the Trump’s arms control policies.

Rubio released a report Wednesday calling on American businesses and policymakers to invest more in domestic capital in the United States.

Prosecutors seeking to put a Navy SEAL behind bars sent emails to the defense team and a reporter with tracking software.

House Democrats plan to stage a marathon public reading of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report on Thursday on Capitol Hill.

The House Intelligence Committee is investigating whether lawyers for President Trump and his family helped to obstruct its investigation.

A Democrat-run group pushed a hashtag calling on Sen. Lindsey Graham to resign, after he said Donald Trump Jr. should ignore a subpoena.

Attorney General William Barr has assigned the United States attorney in Connecticut to look into the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the Trump campaign, according to reports.

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is planning to travel to Ukraine in coming days, along with lawyer Victoria Toesning.

Trump recognized mothers serving in uniform, those married to service members, and those with children in the military.

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will participate in the Celebration of Military Mothers at the White House on Friday.

Huckabee added his name to the growing list of Republicans calling on Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr to “let it go.”

There are “thousands” of detainees in Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) detention camps that need to be dealt with, according to Pompeo.

President Trump intends to nominate Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to take on the role on a permanent basis, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced in a statement Thursday.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt presented a united front against Iran’s announcement Wednesday that it would stop complying with certain parts of the nuclear deal.

Pompeo arrived Tuesday evening in Baghdad, Iraq, amid what he said were “very specific” and “imminent” threats against U.S. troops.

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday turned up the heat on China once again during his trip to Finland to attend the 2019 Arctic Council Ministerial, calling China a “non-Arctic” state whose ambitions in the region pose an emerging challenge.

Hunter is planning to show interested members of Congress this week a video he believes will help exonerate Navy SEAL Chief Eddie Gallagher.

Pompeo said Monday the U.S. was doing all that it could to prevent attacks against U.S. forces stationed in Iraq by Iranian proxy forces.

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech filled with sharp jabs and barbs at China and Russia a day ahead of an annual Arctic Council Ministerial meeting with member nations in Finland.

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Finland on Monday for an Arctic Council ministerial. During the visit he will meet with seven heads of state in the region and reinforce the United States’ commitment to the Arctic amid a growing Chinese presence.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday evening that it is “absolutely” the case that the United States has seen “escalatory action” from Iran, prompting the deployment of a carrier strike group and a bomber task force.

The Ukrainian Embassy confirmed recently that a DNC contractor had asked for dirt on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

China has increased its civilian activities in the Arctic in recent years, with a potential eye towards deploying submarines there.