Intelligence Review Yields No Firm Conclusion on Origins of Coronavirus

Declas­si­fied por­tions of a report pre­sent­ed to Pres­i­dent Biden revealed divi­sions among fed­er­al agen­cies over whether the virus came from a lab leak or emerged more naturally.



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Amid Afghan Chaos, a C.I.A. Mission That Will Persist for Years

The spy agency had plans to de-empha­­size coun­tert­er­ror­ism oper­a­tions to focus on ris­ing glob­al pow­ers. His­to­ry got in the way. Tags: design TT Mod­ell­bahn TT H0 N schal­ten mod­elleisen­bahn bahn spiele­max preise  Ein Reichs­marschall von Adolf […]



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Israel’s Spy Agency Snubbed the U.S. Can Trust Be Restored?

Israel’s new prime min­is­ter, Naf­tali Ben­nett, heads to Wash­ing­ton promis­ing bet­ter rela­tions and seek­ing sup­port for covert attacks on Iran’s nuclear program.

The Real Winner of the Afghan War? It’s Not Who You Think.

Pak­istan, nom­i­nal­ly a U.S. part­ner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s vic­to­ry as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?

Hunted by the Taliban, US-Allied Afghan Forces Are in Hiding

The Afghan forces dis­in­te­grat­ed ahead of the Taliban’s rapid advance. Now, the mil­i­tants are search­ing for thou­sands of Afghan sol­diers and secu­ri­ty officials.

Intelligence Agencies Did Not Predict Imminence of Afghan Collapse, Officials Say

The acknowl­edg­ment came as the Biden admin­is­tra­tion faces heavy crit­i­cism over its han­dling of the with­draw­al of Amer­i­­can-led forces from Afghanistan.

Intelligence Warned of Afghanistan Military Collapse, Despite Biden’s Assurances

Even as the pres­i­dent was telling the pub­lic that Kab­ul was unlike­ly to fall, intel­li­gence assess­ments paint­ed a grim­mer picture.

Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations

An Afghan mil­i­tary that did not believe in itself and a U.S. effort that Mr. Biden, and most Amer­i­cans, no longer believed in brought an igno­ble end to America’s longest war.

Spy Agencies Turn to Scientists As They Wrestle With Mysteries

Amer­i­can intel­li­gence agen­cies are tap­ping out­side exper­tise as they wres­tle with mys­ter­ies like the coro­n­avirus and U.F.O.s that are as much about sci­ence as they are about espionage.

Attempted Hack of R.N.C. and Russian Ransomware Attack Test Biden

The breach of a Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee con­trac­tor, also linked to Rus­sia, and the glob­al ran­somware attack occurred weeks after a U.S.-Russian summit.

U.S. Weighs Possibility of Airstrikes if Afghan Forces Face Crisis

The Pen­ta­gon is con­sid­er­ing whether to inter­vene with war­planes or drones in the event that Kab­ul is in dan­ger of falling to the Tal­iban, though no deci­sions have been made.